Book Of Obadiah Commentary. Obadiah consists of a single, sustained prophecy of god’s coming judgment on the nation of edom for its wrongs against judah. Some consider him to be the same as the obadiah who superintended the restoration of the temple under josiah, 627 b.c.
For they hold that by edomites are meant christians who have treated them much as old edom did their ancestors, and by edom is specially meant rome. All these verses point out the part the edomites took against the jews. The hebrew name obadiah means “worshipper of yahweh” or “servant of yahweh.” there are 13 “obadiahs” in the old testament, and one of these may the obadiah who wrote this book.
The prophetic book of obadiah, though shortest in the hebrew portion of the bible, is no slouch in robust impact.
More than ten persons of the ot bear the same name but none of them is identical with the prophet. The name means servant of jehovah. obadiah stands fourth among the minor prophets according to the hebrew arrangement of the canon, the fifth according to the greek. The book of obadiah is a prophecy of two brothers, two mountains, and two outcomes. Pusey said, “god has willed that his name alone and this brief prophecy should be known to the world.” obadiah is a little book, but it is an example of an atomic bomb in the bible.