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Obadiah analyzes and interprets the Hebrew text of Obadiah—allowing pastors to quickly grasp the big ideas of each passage and how they fit in Obadiah and the Old Testament’s greater context. Daniel I. Block demonstrates the many linguistic connections between words and expressions in the book of Obadiah itself, as well as within many other passages in both the Old and New Testaments.

More specifically, Israelite confidence in YHWH was founded on an official orthodoxy that rested on four immutable propositions, four pillars of divine promise: YHWH’s irrevocable and eternal entitlement of Abraham and his descendants to the land of Canaan, YHWH’s irrevocability and eternal covenant with Israel (Sinai), YHWH’s irrevocable and eternal covenant with David, and YHWH’s irrevocable and eternal commitment to Jerusalem/Zion as his earthly residence (Fig. 1.2). The nearer Nebuchadnezzar’s
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