Matthew Poole and continuators on Obadiah 1:20

20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites , even unto Zarephath ; and the captivity of Jerusalem , which is in Sepharad , shall possess the cities of the south.

Those of the ten Tribes that were carried away captive by Salmaneser, One Hundred and Thirty years before that Jerusalem was taken by Nebuchadnezzar.

All the Countrey they antiently possessed with this addition also, that what the Canaanites held by force, and the Israelites could not take from them, shall now be possessed by these returned Captives.

Called Sareptah Luke 4.26. near Sidon.

The two Tribes, carried captive when Ierusalem was taken by Nebuchadnezzar.

The Modern Jewes call Spain Sepharad, but without any good ground, nor was it so called antiently, nor doth the Chaldee Paraphr. so interpret it; nor do I meet with any thing better then a tacite confession, that most believe 'tis a City of Chaldea or Assyria, and toward the Northern and farthest bounds of it, but where 'twas exactly they know not.

All the Cities which were once their own.

In Judea, which lay Southward from this Sepharad, where the captives dwelt, and whence they return.

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