Text -- Obadiah 1:14 (NET)

1:14 You should not have stood at the fork in the road to slaughter those trying to escape. You should not have captured their refugees when they suffered adversity.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Oba 1:14

¹ tn The meaning of the Hebrew word פֶּרֶק (pereq; here translated “fork in the road”) is uncertain. The word is found in the Hebrew Bible only here and in Nah 3:1, where it means “plunder.” In the present context it seems to refer to a strategic intersection or fork in a road where bands of Edomites apprehended Israelites who were fleeing from the attack on Jerusalem. Cf. NAB, NIV, NLT “crossroads”; NRSV “crossings.”

² tn Heb “to cut off” (so KJV, NRSV); NASB, NIV “to cut down.”

³ tn Heb “his fugitives”; NAB, CEV “refugees.”

⁴ tn Heb “in the day of distress” (so KJV, ASV).