Cross references

Obadiah 1:7

All the men allied with you

will drive you to the border;

the men at peace with you

will deceive and overpower you.

Those who eat your bread

will set a trap for you

without your awareness of it.

Obadiah 1:7 BSB
  1. a Hebrew does not include Those who eat.

Obadiah 1:7 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 41:9 (7 votes) and John 13:18 (5 votes). 11 other verses point back to it. It links with 11 other books, from Genesis 25 to Revelation 17.

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Which verses does Obadiah 1:7 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Psalm 41:97 votes

    Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

  2. John 13:185 votes

    I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: ‘The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’

  3. All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.

  4. Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

  5. For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide. But it is you, a man like myself, my companion and close friend.

  6. The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”? Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt. …

  7. When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

  8. And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.

  9. For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”

  10. All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ‘They misled you and overcame you—those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.’

Which verses point to Obadiah 1:7?

The 10 strongest of 11.