A Study Guide for the Book of Lamentations by John Teague, ThD - HTML preview

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(a)

For staring at their naked and

disgraced kinsmen as they were led

away captive.

(b)

For actually entering the burning city

to help themselves to the spoils

which the Babylonians left behind,

(Obad.13).

(c)

For having set guards at certain

crossroads and for having captured

or killed those Jews who had

managed to escape the carnage,

(Ezek.35:5).

(d)

For having made an agreement with

both the Philistines and with those of

Tyre, that if any Jew escaped to their

country, they would take them

captive and ship them to Edom,

(Amos 1:6,9).

d)

Throughout Israel’s history, the wars with Edom were really no more gruesome and continuous as were Israel’s wars with the rest of her heathen neighbors.

(1)

Israel’s history is a history of struggles for survival against everybody else, (Ps.118:10).

(a)

King David fought with Edom and

subdued it.

(b)

David’s predecessor, King Saul, had

done battle with the Edomites, (2

Sam.8:14; 1 Chron.18:11-13).

(c)

David’s son, Solomon, demonstrated

Israel’s continuing rule over Edom.

(1)

Solomon did not allow the

incessant hostility between

his nation and Edom to

interfere with his appetite for

heathen women.