Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the LORD was there,
Parallel translations
- WEB Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there:
- KJV Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
- NKJV “Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,’ although the Lord was there,
- NASB “Since you have said, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,’ although the Lord was there,
- NLT “For you said, ‘The lands of Israel and Judah will be ours. We will take possession of them. What do we care that the Lord is there!’
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Quick answer
Edom coveted Israel and Judah, planning to seize the land—forgetting that the LORD was there. Greed against God's people defies God Himself.
Overview
After Judah's fall, Edom schemed to annex 'these two nations and these two countries' (Israel and Judah). Their fatal oversight: 'Yahweh was there.' The land belonged to God, who had not abandoned His covenant. To grasp at His inheritance was to oppose Him. The verse shows the folly of treating God's purposes for His people as merely vacant opportunity.
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- Ezek 36:5Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.
- Ezek 48:35The perimeter of the city will be 18,000 cubits, and from that day on the name of the city will be: THE LORD IS THERE.”
- Ps 83:4–12saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
- Ps 48:1–3A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.
- Ezek 36:2This is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’
- Isa 12:6Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
- Zech 2:5For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”
- Obad 1:13You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.
- Zeph 3:15The LORD has taken away your punishment; He has turned back your enemy. Israel’s King, the LORD, is among you; no longer will you fear any harm.
- Ps 132:13–14For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
- Isa 31:9Their 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.
- Jer 49:1Concerning the Ammonites, this is what the LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Is he without heir? Why then has Milcom taken possession of Gad? Why have his people settled in their cities?
- Ps 76:1For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A song. God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel.
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