Obadiah 1:7
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All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageEdom, centered south and southeast of the Dead Sea around Mount Esau, is the immediate target of Obadiah 1:7, where its former allies betray it. The other places mark Israel’s wider promised-land restoration: Jerusalem and Zion in Judah; Canaan
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Obadiah 1:7 mentions Canaan, Edom, Gilead, Halah, Jerusalem, Mount Esau, Mount Zion, Negeb, Philistia, Samaria, Sepharad, Shephelah and Zarephath.
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