“Since you have said, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,’ although 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:
- 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,
- 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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Cross-references · 13
- Ezek 36:5therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.
- Ezek 48:35It shall be eighteen thousand reeds around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.
- Ps 83:4–12“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
- Ps 48:1–3A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
- Ezek 36:2Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession;
- Isa 12:6Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”
- Zech 2:5For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.
- Obad 1:13Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.
- Zeph 3:15Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.
- Ps 132:13–14For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
- Isa 31:9His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner,” says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
- Jer 49:1Of the children of Ammon. Yahweh says: “Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? Why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in its cities?
- Ps 76:1For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song. In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.
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