John Trapp on Obadiah 1:20

Verſe 20. And the captivity of this hoſt of the children of Iſrael, &c.] i.e. the multitude of the Jews carried captive to Babylon, returning at length into their own countrey, ſhall poſſeſſe all the places of the Canaanites, all the Maritine cities, all the tract of ground as farre as Sarepta, which is betwixt Tyre and Zidon, therefore called Sarepta of Zidon, 1 King. 17.19. Here dwelt the Canaanites, whom Aſher could not expell, Judg. 1.31, 32. See Mat. 15.22.

and the captivity of Jeruſalem which is in Sepharad,] that is, either in ſome citie of Aſſyria, or in the utmoſt bounds of the Babyloniſh dominion, (as ſome interpret the word Sepharad, by taking it aſunder) or as farre as Apharad, (ſo the Septuagint) that is, Euphrates. The Hebrew Doctors, as by Canaanites here, they underſtand the Dutch, and by Zarephath, France, ſo by Sepharad they will needs have Spain to be meant, ſubdued ſay they by Nebuchadnezzar, after other his great conqueſts, and by him planted with Iews, carried captive from Ieruſalem. With ſuch bold and frivolous fancies do theſe poor deluded creatures fondly feed themſelves. They are generally light, aeriall, and fanaticall brains, ſaith One: apt to work themſelves into the fools-paradiſe of a ſublime dotage. They not onely expect a corporall reſtitution to their own countrey,Blounts voyage. but alſo a ſoveraignty over all other nations, and poſſeſſion of their Provinces, ſaith Another: they beleeve that the Meſſias is not yet come,Buxtorf. ſynag. c. 5. becauſe the Chriſtian Empire is not yet deſtroyed: and therefore they pray daily for the overthrow of the Roman Empire. Out of the Eaſt it is that they expect their Meſſiah, whither the Spaniſh Iews fled, (when they were baniſhed) and are exceedingly multiplied: for thoſe do they hold to be this captivity of Ieruſalem here mentioned,Spec. Europ. viz. of the tribe of Iudah; and the other in Germany, and Italy, to be of the tribe of Benjamin: who in honour of the more noble tribe, and to correſpond with them the better, do learn the Spaniſh Tongue: which thoſe ſtill retain, in hope, belike, to be one day Lords of that large and rich countrey.

Shall Poſſeſſe the cities of the South.] i. e. ſhall return to their own Southerly cities and provinces. And this Propheſie of recovering the holy land, is to be taken in a ſpirituall ſence: and it importeth, that all thoſe that are Iſraelites indeed, Iews inwardly, ſhall flee to the Church of Chriſt, Rom. 9.