Personality Profile: Obadiah

1 Name means: “Servant (or worshiper) of the Lord.”

Not to be confused with: Eleven other men in the Old Testament, including an official in charge of Ahab’s palace (1 Kin. 18:3–16).

Best known today as: The prophet whose vision of the Lord’s judgment on Edom is contained in the shortest book in the Old Testament.

Word in life study Bible . 1997, c1996 (electronic ed.) (Abd 3). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

Outline

I.     The Doom of Edom (vv. 1–14).

A.     The Humbling of Proud Edom (vv. 1–4).

B.     The Thoroughness of the Slaughter of Edom (vv. 5–9).

C.     The Reason for Edom’s Destruction (vv. 10–14).

II.     Edom in “the Day of the Lord” (vv. 15–21).

A.     The Judgment of Edom and Other Nations (vv. 15, 16).

B.     Israel’s Place in “the Day of the Lord” (vv. 17–21).

1.     Salvation and Riches (v. 17).

2.     The Destruction of Edom (v. 18).

3.     The Enlargement of Borders (vv. 19, 20).

4.     The Lord and Those Who Reign with Him (v. 21).

New Geneva study Bible. 1997, c1995 (electronic ed.) (Abd 1). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

Obadiah

Served as a prophet to Judah possibly around 853 B.C.