Obadiah 1:18 “Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Josep…”

Obadiah 1:18

Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be stubble— Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain from the house of Esau.” For the LORD has spoken.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

American Standard Version

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 burn among them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining to the house of Esau; for Jehovah hath spoken it.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the house of Iaakob shalbe a fire, and the house of Ioseph a flame, and the house of Esau as stubble, and they shall kindle in them and deuoure them: and there shall bee no remnant of the house of Esau for the Lord hath spoken it.

Darby Translation

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 Jehovah hath spoken [it].

Young's Literal Translation

And the house of Jacob hath been a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame, And the house of Esau for stubble, And they have burned among them, And they have consumed them, And there is not a remnant to the house of Esau, For Jehovah hath spoken.

Bible in Basic English

And the children of Jacob will be a fire and those of Joseph a flame, and the children of Esau dry stems of grass, burned up by them till all is gone: and there will be no people living in Esau; for the Lord has said it.

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Cross references

“shall be”

Zechariah 12:6 Isaiah 10:17 Micah 5:8 Isaiah 31:9

Zechariah 12:6 · BSB

On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among the sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and on the left, while the people of Jerusalem r…

Isaiah 10:17 · BSB

And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

Micah 5:8 · BSB

Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with…

Isaiah 31:9 · BSB

Their rock will pass away for fear, and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

“the house of Joseph”

Ezekiel 37:19 2 Samuel 19:20 Ezekiel 37:16 Amos 5:15 Amos 6:6

Ezekiel 37:19 · BSB

you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will put them together with the stick of Ju…

2 Samuel 19:20 · BSB

For your servant knows that I have sinned, so here I am today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”

Ezekiel 37:16 · BSB

“And you, son of man, take a single stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Judah and to the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Joseph—the stick of Ephraim—and to all the…

Amos 5:15 · BSB

Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

Amos 6:6 · BSB

You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

“for stubble”

Isaiah 5:24 Psalm 83:6–15 Isaiah 47:14 Joel 2:5 Nahum 1:10 1 Corinthians 3:12

Isaiah 5:24 · BSB

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Host…

Psalm 83:6–15 · BSB

the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,

Isaiah 47:14 · BSB

Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.

Joel 2:5 · BSB

With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.

Nahum 1:10 · BSB

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.

1 Corinthians 3:12 · BSB

If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

“and there”

Obadiah 1:16 Obadiah 1:9 Obadiah 1:10

Obadiah 1:16 · BSB

For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.

Obadiah 1:9 · BSB

Then your mighty men, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone in the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.

Obadiah 1:10 · BSB

Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

17But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will reclaim their possession.

19Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau; those from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.

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