Obadiah 1:9

Your warriors will be shattered, O Teman, ¹  so that ²  everyone ³  will be destroyed ⁴  from Esau’s mountain!

Ge 36:11; De 2:5; Job 2:11; Ps 76:5,6; Isa 19:16,17; Isa 34:5-8; Isa 63:1-3; Jer 49:7,20; Jer 49:22; Jer 50:36,37; Eze 25:13; Am 1:12; Am 2:16; Ob 1:21; Na 3:13

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.”