Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas 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:
- BSB Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though 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 thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
- Ezek 48:35It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
- Ps 83:4–12They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
- Ps 48:1–3Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
- Ezek 36:2Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
- Isa 12:6Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
- Zech 2:5For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
- Obad 1:13Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
- Zeph 3:15The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.
- Ps 132:13–14For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
- Isa 31:9And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
- Jer 49:1Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?
- Ps 76:1In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
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