Text -- Obadiah 1:9 (NET)

1:9 Your warriors will be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone will be destroyed from Esau’s mountain!

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Oba 1:9

¹ sn Teman, like Sela, was a prominent city of Edom. The name Teman is derived from the name of a grandson of Esau (cf. Gen 36:11). Here it is a synecdoche of part for whole, standing for all of Edom.

² tn The Hebrew word used here (לְמַעַן, lÿma’an) usually expresses purpose. The sense in this context, however, is more likely that of result.

³ tn Heb “a man,” meaning “every single person” here; cf. KJV “every one.”

⁴ tn Heb “cut off” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV, NLT “cut down”; CEV “wiped out.”