Matthew Poole and continuators on Obadiah 1:18

18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble , and they shall kindle in them , and devour them , and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it .

Besides what Nebuchadnezzar shall do upon his particular quarrel against Edom, bringing them to a very desolate condition, there shall (though it be not owned) intermixed be the quarrel of God for Israels sake, which the Chaldeans shall avenge, or else, after the return out of Captivity, and some setled state in their own land, Israel himself shall destroy the remnant of Edom, Ioel 3.16. with 19. and Ezek. 25.14.

Either the Kingdom of the two Tribes, or else the whole twelve Tribes, the residue of the ten Tribes joined with the two in their return from Babylon.

The ten Tribes particularly here mentioned to comfort them, and assure them, that they should not be cast off▪ though they were more notoriously guilty of Idolatry, and along Apostacy.

As unable to resist or secure themselves, as stubble is to resist the flame.

This was fulfilled in part by Hi[illegible: 1 letter]canus and the Maccabees, 1 Mac. 5.3. but more fully to be accomplisht in the mystical sense, when the Lord shall make his Church as a fire to all its enemies, and Ierusalem a burthensome stone to all Nations.

As flame eats up the stubble.

No considerable number or body of them, or none shall continue Edomites, but turn Iewes, and be Circumcised, be added to the Church.

However or when ever this is done, it shall be done, because the Lord hath spoken it; this assures us of the thing.

Marginal references: Zech. 12.6.