Teks -- Obadiah 1:11 (NET)

1:11 You stood aloof while strangers took his army captive, and foreigners advanced to his gates. When they cast lots over Jerusalem, you behaved as though you were in league with them.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Oba 1:11 - In the day

During the war which the Babylonians made upon Judea.

Wesley: Oba 1:11 - Stoodest

Didst set thyself in battle array against thy brother.

Wesley: Oba 1:11 - Jerusalem

Upon the citizens and their goods.

Wesley: Oba 1:11 - As one of them

As merciless and insolent as any of them.

JFB: Oba 1:11 - thou stoodest on the other side

In an attitude of hostility, rather than the sympathy which became a brother, feasting thine eyes (see Oba 1:12) with the misery of Jacob, and eagerly watching for his destruction. So Messiah, the antitype to Jerusalem, abandoned by His kinsmen (Psa 38:11).

JFB: Oba 1:11 - strangers

The Philistines, Arabians in the reign of Jehoram, &c. (2Ch 21:16); the Syrians in the reign of Joash of Judah (2Ch 24:24); the Chaldeans (2Ch. 36:1-23).

JFB: Oba 1:11 - carried . . . captive his forces

His "host" (Oba 1:20): the multitude of Jerusalem's inhabitants.

JFB: Oba 1:11 - cast lots upon Jerusalem

(Joe 3:3). So Messiah, Jerusalem's antitype, had lots cast for His only earthly possessions (Psa 22:18).

Clarke: Oba 1:11 - Thou stoodest on the other side

Thou stoodest on the other side - Thou not only didst not help thy brother when thou mightest, but thou didst assist his foes against him

Clarke: Oba 1:11 - And cast lots

And cast lots - When the Chaldeans cast lots on the spoils of Jerusalem, thou didst come in for a share of the booty; "thou wast as one of them."

Calvin: Oba 1:11 - In the day

In the day, he says, in which thou didst stand on the opposite side ”. But the Idumeans might have made this objection, “Why dost thou accuse us for having violently oppressed our brother? for we were not the cause why they were destroyed: they had a quarrel with the Assyrians, we labored to protect our own interest in the midst of these disturbances; we sought peace with the Assyrians, and if necessity so compelled us, that ought not to be ascribed to us as a crime or blame.” In this way the Idumeans might have made a defense: but the Prophet dissipates all such pretenses by saying, In the day in which thou didst stand on the opposite side, in the day in which strangers took away his substance, and aliens entered his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem — were not thou there? Even thou were as one of them. Now this is emphatically introduced — Even thou or, thou also; ( Tu etiam ) for the Prophet exhibits it here as a hateful omen: “It was no wonder that the Assyrians and Chaldeans shed the blood of thy brethren, for they were enemies, they were foreigners, they were a very distant people: but thou, who were of the same blood, thou, whom the bond of religion ought to have restrained, and further, even thou, who oughtest by the very claims of vicinity either to have helped thy brethren, or at least to have condoled with them — yea, thou were so cruel as to have been as one of his enemies: this surely can by no means be endured.”

We now perceive what the Prophet meant by saying, In the day in which thou didst stand on the opposite side: it is then as it were, an explanation of the former sentence, lest the Idumeans should make a false excuse by objecting that they had not been violent against their brethren. It was indeed the worst oppression, when they stood over against them; though they were not armed they yet took pleasure in a spectacle so mournful; besides they not only were idle spectators of the calamity of their brethren but were also as it were a part of their enemies. “Hast thou then not been as one of them?” I shall not proceed farther now.

TSK: Oba 1:11 - in the day that the // captive his forces // cast // even

in the day that the : 2Ki 24:10-16, 2Ki 25:11; Jer 52:28-30

captive his forces : or, his substance

cast : Joe 3:3; Nah 3:10

even : Psa 50:18, Psa 137:7

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Oba 1:11 - In the day // That thou stoodest on the other side // Carried away captive // His forces // Foreigners entered into his gates // Cast lots // Upon Jerusalem // Even thou // wast as one of them

In the day during the war which the Babylonians made upon Judea, or in the day of battle when Jews fought with Chaldeans.

That thou stoodest on the other side tookest up thy stand over-right them, observing with delight how they were worsted, slaughtered. and routed; or didst set thyself in battle-array against thy brother Jacob. The strangers; the Babylonians. and the mixed nations which joined with them.

Carried away captive first mastered the Jews, and then made them captives. and sent them away out of their own land, a sight which should have moved compassions in thee.

His forces his strength, his troops, or multitudes that survived and were taken, and their wealth and riches too.

Foreigners entered into his gates that invaded, slew the inhabitants, and forced the besieged places to open their gates; or took the fortresses by assault.

Cast lots so robbers divided their prey, and conquerors, Pro 1:14 Joe 3:3 , which see.

Upon Jerusalem upon the citizens and their goods, which were found in Jerusalem when it was taken by the Chaldeans.

Even thou a neighbour, who wast not molested by Israel when they marched through other nations from Egypt to Canaan, who wast a brother by descent, Oba 1:10 ,

wast as one of them as merciless and insolent as any of those barbarous foreigners.

Haydock: Oba 1:11 - Captive // Lots

Captive. He alludes to the taking of Sedecias. ---

Lots, for the booty, or whether they should burn the city or not. All was regulated by lots. (Calmet)

Gill: Oba 1:11 - In the day thou stoodest on the other side // in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces // and foreigners entered into his gates // and cast lots upon Jerusalem // even thou wast as one of them

In the day thou stoodest on the other side,.... Aloof off, as a spectator of the ruin of Jerusalem, and that with delight and pleasure; when they should, as brethren and neighbours, have assisted against the common enemy; but instead of this they stood at a distance; or they went over to the other side, and joined the enemy, and stood in opposition to their brethren the Jews:

in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces; that is, at the time that the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and carried captive as many of the forces of the Jews as fell into their hands; or when

"the people spoiled his substance,''

as the Targum; plundered the city of all its wealth and riches:

and foreigners entered into his gates; the gates of their cities, particularly Jerusalem; even such who came from a far country, the Babylonians, who were aliens and strangers from the commonwealth of Israel; whereas the Edomites were their near neighbours, and allied to them by blood, though not of the same religion; and by whom they helped against a foreign enemy, instead of being used by them as they were:

and cast lots upon Jerusalem; either to know when they should make their attack upon it; or else, having taken it, the generals of the Chaldean army cast lots upon the captives, to divide them among them, so Kimchi; see Joe 3:3; or rather, the soldiers cast lots for the division of the plunder of the city, as was usual at such times:

even thou wast as one of them; the Edomites joined the Chaldeans, entered into the city with them, showed as much wrath, spite, and malice, as they did, and were as busy in dividing the spoil. So Aben Ezra interprets these and the following verses of the destruction of the city and temple of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar; but Kimchi expounds them of the destruction of them by the Romans, at which he supposes many Edomites to be present, and rejoiced at it: could this be supported, the connection would be more clear and close between these words and those that follow, which respect the Gospel dispensation, beginning at Oba 1:17; but the Edomites were not in being then; and that there were many of them in the Roman army, and that Titus himself was one, is all fabulous.