Text: Obadiah 7
OT Text Referred to: Jeremiah 49:12-13
Subject: cup of judgment that Edom must drink
Source: John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1763)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Jeremiah 49:12-13 employs the cup-of-wrath motif and swears "by Myself" that Bozrah will become a desolation, while Obadiah pronounces judgment on Edom using similar themes of total devastation. Both texts emphasize the irreversibility and completeness of Edom's downfall — Jeremiah declares Bozrah (Edom's capital) will become "an object of horror and reproach" (שַׁמָּה, shammah), while Obadiah promises Edom will be "cut off forever" (Obad 10). The argument from lesser to greater in Jeremiah 49:12 — if Israel must drink judgment's cup, Edom surely cannot escape — parallels Obadiah's logic of reciprocal justice, creating a convergent prophetic witness against Edom from two independent oracles.