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The Book of Obadiah is based on a prophetic vision concerning the fall of Edom, [6] a mountain-dwelling nation [7] whose founding father was Esau. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Obadiah describes an encounter with Yahweh , who addresses Edom's arrogance and charges them for their "violence against your brother Jacob".
Obadiah (/ oʊ b ə ˈ d aɪ. ə /; Hebrew: עֹבַדְיָה – ʿŌḇaḏyā or עֹבַדְיָהוּ – ʿŌḇaḏyāhū; "servant or slave of Yah"), also known as Abdias, [2] is a biblical prophet. The authorship of the Book of Obadiah is traditionally attributed to the prophet Obadiah.
According to 1 Kings 18:4, Obadiah hid a hundred prophets of God in two caves, fifty in each, to protect them from Jezebel, Ahab's wife.Later statements of the prophet Elijah, where he describes himself as the only remaining prophet of Yahweh [2] led biblical theologian Otto Thenius to conclude that eventually they were captured and killed, but George Rawlinson and other commentators argue ...
The Twelve Minor Prophets (Hebrew: שנים עשר, Shneim Asar; Imperial Aramaic: תרי עשר, Trei Asar, "Twelve") (Ancient Greek: δωδεκαπρόφητον, "the Twelve Prophets"), or the Book of the Twelve, is a collection of prophetic books, written between about the 8th and 4th centuries BCE, which are in both the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Old Testament.
1 Kings 18 is the eighteenth chapter of the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible or the First Book of Kings in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of various annals recording the acts of the kings of Israel and Judah by a Deuteronomic compiler in the seventh century BCE, with a supplement added in the sixth century BCE. [3]
Later scholarship determined the book was originally written in Latin, probably around 910 AD, long after the death of Abdias of Babylon. [7] The most obvious clues include the book's citations of the Vulgate of St Jerome , of the Ecclesiastical History of Rufinus and of his Latin translation of the Recognitiones of Clement .
"Obadiah" in Hebrew means "servant or slave to God". In Judaism, Obadiah is one of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the final section of Nevi'im, the second main division of the Tanakh. In Christianity, the Book of Obadiah is classified as a minor prophet of the Old Testament, and in first Book of Kings chapter 18, he acts as a protector of ...
The Book of Joshua Judges: Judices: Judges: The Book of Judges Ruth: Ruth: Ruth: The Book of Ruth 1 Samuel: 1 Samuelis also known as 1 Regum: 1 Kings: The First Book of Samuel, otherwise called the First Book of the Kings 2 Samuel: 2 Samuelis also known as 2 Regum: 2 Kings: The Second Book of Samuel, otherwise called the Second Book of the ...