Obadiah

One of the Books of the Bible in the Old Testament. I think it's the shortest book in the Bible and the only book addressed to Gentiles.

Basics

• Author: Obadiah 1: "The vision of Obadiah."
• Date: After the fall of Jerusalem (586 B.C.) and before the fall of Edom (553 B.C.)
• Length: Only 21 verses long.
• Order: Amos > Obadiah > Jonah

(The ESV Study Bible^TM, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 1677)

Obadiah the prophet

Difficult to identify apart from his vision recorded in Obadiah.

Obadiah Summary

Topics

Figures

• Esau
• Jacob
• Joseph
• Obadiah
• Teman

Peoples

• Benjamin
• Canaanites
• Philistines

Places

• Edom
• Ephraim
• Mount Esau
• Gilead
• Israel
• Jerusalem
• Judah
• Negeb
• Samaria
• Sepharad
• Shephelah
• Zarephath
• Mount Zion, My holy mountain

Other

• Day of the LORD
• Stubble

Verses

• Obadiah 5 - If thieves came to you, if plunderers came by night-- how you have been destroyed!-- would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
• Obadiah 15 - For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.
• Obadiah 16 - For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been.
• Obadiah 18 - The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.