Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Obadiah 1:20
And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel [shall possess] that of the Canaanites, [even] unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which [is] in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
20. Two ways of rendering this verse are given in our English Bibles, one in the text, the other in the margin. The latter of these fully expressed would be: “ And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that (i.e. the land) of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem shall possess that which is in Sepharad; they shall possess the cities of the south.” But a third rendering of the verse is possible and appears to be more satisfactory than either of these: “ And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel which the Canaanites (have carried captive) even unto Zarephath and the captivity of Jerusalem which is in Sepharad (these) shall possess the cities of the south.” The prophet having assigned their dwelling-place to the main body of the people, the tribes of Judah and Benjamin who returned from Babylon, now bethinks him of their brethren, who in the general disruption of the Chaldean invasion had been carried captive in other directions. He mentions two such bodies of captives, whether as including or as representing all Jews who were in such a case, and for them he finds a home in the regions of the south. Another rendering is adopted in R.V.
this host of the children of Israel ] It is suggested in the Speaker’s Commentary, that the word “this” here “indicates the body (of exiles) to which Obadiah himself belonged, and of which he formed one. We know nothing,” it is said, “of Obadiah’s history; he may well have been one of the many inhabitants of Judah who had to flee before the Babylonish inroad, and were afterwards spread as homeless exiles through the cities of Palestine and Phnicia. If this be so, a touching personal interest attaches itself to the prophet’s words. He comforts his brother-exiles in Canaan by telling them that they, as well as the exiles in Sepharad, should return, and take possession of the cities of the south.” The suggestion is interesting, but it is more natural to understand the expression, “this host of the children of Israel,” of the entire body of the Jews, uprooted and doomed to exile as Obadiah saw them when he wrote. Of this whole captive host, he says, that portion which has been carried into Phnicia shall be thus provided for. In this sense the word “host” (“forces”) is perhaps used in Oba 1:11. See note there.
even unto Zarephath ] The Sarepta of the New Testament (Luk 4:26) famous in the history of Elijah, 1Ki 17:9-24. It was a considerable town, as its ruins now shew, on the coast road between Tyre and Sidon. Its modern representative, Sarafend, is a small village on the hill above.
in Sepharad ] Great difference of opinion exists as to the meaning and reference of this word. The conjecture of Jerome that it is not a proper name, but the Assyrian word for “boundary,” which the prophet has adopted, is accepted by some. It would then mean, “who are scattered abroad in all the boundaries and regions of the earth.” Comp. Jas 1:1. It is more probable, however, that like Zarephath in the other clause of the verse, Sepharad is the name of a place, though it is not easy to determine what place is intended by it. The modern Jews understand it of Spain, and accordingly, “at the present day the Spanish Jews, who form the chief of the two great sections into which the Jewish nation is divided, are called by the Jews themselves the Sephardim, German Jews being known as the Ashkenazim.” Dict. of the Bible, Art. Sepharad. By others it is identified with Sardis, the capital of the Lydian kingdom, the name having been discovered as it is thought to designate Sardis in the cuneiform Persian inscriptions. Adopting this view (for which some have found support in Joe 3:6). Dr Pusey thus explains the whole verse: “Zarephath (probably ‘smelting-house,’ and so a place of slave-labour, pronounced Sarepta in St Luke) belonged to Sidon, lying on the sea about half way between it and Tyre. These were then, probably, captives, placed by the Tyrians for the time in safe keeping in the narrow plain between Lebanon and the sea, intercepted by Tyre itself from their home, and awaiting to be transported to a more distant slavery. These, with those already sold to the Grecians and in slavery at Sardis, form one whole. They stand as representatives of all who, whatever their lot, had been rent off from the Lord’s land, and had been outwardly severed from His heritage.” Other conjectures are given in the article in the Dictionary of the Bible. Whatever uncertainty attaches to the word Sepharad, the drift of the prophecy is perfectly clear, viz. that not only the exiles from Babylon, but Jewish captives from other and distant regions shall be brought back to live prosperously within the enlarged borders of their own land.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel – , (it must, I believe, be rendered,) which are among the Canaanites, as far as Zarephath, and the captivity of Jerusalem which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the South. Obadiah had described how the two tribes, whose were the promises to the house of David, should spread abroad on all sides. Here he represents how Judah should, in its turn, receive into its bosom those now carried away from them; so should all again be one fold.
Zarephath – (probably smelting-house, and so a place of slave-labor, pronounced Sarepta in Luke) Luk 4:26. belonged to Sidon 1Ki 17:9, lying on the sea about halfway between it and Tyre. . These were then, probably, captives, placed by Tyrians for the time in safe keeping in the narrow plain between Lebanon and the sea, intercepted by Tyre itself from their home, and awaiting to be transported to a more distant slavery. These, with those already sold to the Grecians and in slavery at Sardis, formed one whole. They stand as representatives of all who, whatever their lot, had been rent off from the Lords land, and had been outwardly severed from His heritage.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 20. Zarephath] Sarepta, a city of the Sidonians, 1Kg 17:9. That is, they should possess the whole city of Phoenicia, called here that of the Canaanites.
Which is in Sepharad] This is a difficult word. Some think the Bosphorus is meant; others, Spain; others, France; others, the Euphrates; others, some district in Chaldea; for there was a city called Siphora, in Mesopotamia, above the division of the Euphrates. Dr. Lightfoot says it was a part of Edom. Those who were captives among the Canaanites should possess the country of the Canaanites; and those whom the Edomites had enslaved should possess the cities of their masters. See Newcome and Lowth.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The captivity of this host of the children of Israel, those of the ten tribes that were carried away captive by Shalmaneser, one hundred and thirty years before Jerusalem was taken by Nebuchadnezzar,
shall possess that of the Canaanites; all the country they anciently possessed, with this addition also, that what the Canaanites held by force, and the Israelites could not take from them, shall now be possessed by these returned captives.
Zarephath, called Sarepta, Luk 4:26, near Sidon.
The captivity of Jerusalem; the two tribes, carried captive when Jerusalem was taken by Nebuchadnezzar.
In Sepharad; the modern Jews call Spain Sepharad, but without any good ground, nor was it so called anciently, nor doth the Chaldee paraphrase so interpret it; nor do I meet with any thing better than a tacit confession, that most believe it is a city of Chaldea or Assyria, and toward the northern and farthest bounds of it, but where it was exactly they know not.
Shall possess the cities of the south; all the cities, which were once their own, in Judea, which lay southward from this Sepharad, where the captives dwelt, and whence they return.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
20. the captivity of this hostthatis, the captives of this multitude of Israelites.
shall possess that of theCanaanitesMAURERtranslates, “the captives . . . whom the Canaanites (carriedaway captive into Phoelignicia) even unto Zarephath, shall possessthe south,” namely, Idumea as well as the south (Ob19). HENDERSON,similarly, “the captives that are among the Canaanites,” c.But the corresponding clauses of the parallelism are better balancedin English Version, “the ten tribes of Israel shallpossess the territory of the Canaanites,” namely, WesternPalestine and Phoelignicia (Jud 3:3).”And the captives of Jerusalem (and Judah) shall possess thesouthern cities,” namely, Edom, &c. Each has the regionrespectively adjoining assigned to it Israel has the westernCanaanite region; Judah, the southern.
even unto ZarephathnearZidon; called Sarepta in Lu 4:26.The name implies it was a place for smelting metals. From thisquarter came the “woman of Canaan” (Mat 15:21;Mat 15:22). Captives of the Jewshad been carried into the coasts of Palestine or Canaan, about Tyreand Zidon (Joe 3:3; Joe 3:4;Amo 1:9). The Jews when restoredshall possess the territory of their ancient oppressors.
in Sepharadthat is,the Bosphorus [JEROME,from his Hebrew Instructor]. Sephar, according to others (Ge10:30). Palography confirms JEROME.In the cuneiform inscription containing a list of the tribes ofPersia [NIEBUHR, Tab.31.1], before Ionia and Greece, and after Cappadocia, comes the nameCPaRaD. It was therefore a district of Western Asia Minor, aboutLydia, and near the Bosphorus. It is made an appellative by MAURER.”The Jerusalem captives of the dispersion” (compareJas 1:1), wherever they bedispersed, shall return and possess the southern cities. Sepharad,though literally the district near the Bosphorus, represents theJews’ far and wide dispersion. JEROMEsays the name in Assyrian means a boundary, that is, “theJews scattered in all boundaries and regions.”
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel [shall possess] that of the Canaanites, [even] unto Zarephath,…. That is, the host or army, the great number of the children of Israel, that have been carried captive, upon their return shall possess that part of the land of Israel which was inhabited formerly by the Canaanites, even as far as to Zarephath, said to belong to Zidon,
1Ki 17:10; and called Sarepta of Sidon; see Lu 4:26. It is mentioned by Pliny h along with Sidon, where glass was made; and perhaps this place might have its name from the melting of glass in it, from , which signifies to melt metals, glass, c. it is called by Josephus i Sarephtha who says it was not far from Sidon and Tyre, and lay between them: according to an Arabic geographer k, it was twenty miles from Tyre, and ten from Sidon. Here the Prophet Elijah dwelt for a time; and in the times of Jerom l was shown a little tower, said to be his habitation, which travellers visited. Mr. Maundrell m speaks of this place as three hours’ journey from Sidon, and is now called
“Sarphan, supposed (he says) to be the ancient Sarephath, or Sarepta, so famous for the residence and miracles of the Prophet Elijah; the place shown us for this city consisted of only a few houses on the tops of the mountains, within about half a mile of the sea; but it is more probable the principal part of, the city stood below, in the space between the hills and the sea, there being ruins still to be seen in that place, of a considerable extent?”
It was once a place very famous for wine; the wine of Sarepta is often made mention of by writers n; perhaps vines might grow upon the hills and mountains about it; and this being a city of Phoenicia, on the northern border of the land of Israel, is very fitly observed as the limit of the possession of the Israelites this way;
and the captivity of Jerusalem, which [is] in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south; the Jews, who were carried captive into Babylon, to Sepharad; some place, though unknown, perhaps in the land of Babylon. Calmet o conjectures it may be Sippara or Sipparat, in Mesopotamia, a little above the division of the Euphrates: and the Septuagint version renders it Ephratha; which perhaps is a corruption, of the Euphrates in the present copies: the Vulgate Latin version translates it Bosphorus; and so Jerom, who says that the Hebrew that taught him assured him that Bosphorus was called Sepharad; whither Adrian is said to carry the Jews captive. Kimchi and Aben Ezra interpret it of the present captivity of theirs by Titus, who upon their return to their land shall possess the, southern part of it, which originally belonged to the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:20. If Sepharad, in the Assyrian language, signifies a border, as Jerom says it does, it denotes, as some think, that part of Arabia which borders on the south of Judea, that shall be inhabited by the Jews. Some render the words, “the captivity of Jerusalem shall possess that which is in Sepharad, and the cities of the south”: but this is contrary to the accents, unless the words “shall possess” be repeated, and so two clauses made, “the captivity of Jerusalem [shall possess] that which is in Sepharad; they shall possess the cities of the south”. The Targum and Syriac version, instead of Sepharad, have Spain; and so the Jewish writers generally interpret it. By the Canaanites they think are meant the Germans, and the country of Germany; by Zarephath, France; and by Sepharad, Spain; so Aben Ezra, Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech, fancying that they who are now captives in these countries shall one day possess them: but the prophecy only respects their settlement in their own land, and some parts adjacent to it; or rather the enlargement of the church of Christ in the world. A late learned writer p, is of opinion that some respect may be had to this passage in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, in which the former makes mention of “five brethren” that he had, Lu 16:28; and are by the said writer thus reckoned:
1. the house of Jacob; 2. the house of Joseph, which are said to possess the south, with the mountains of Esau, and the plain; 3. Benjamin, which shall possess Gilead; 4. the captives from the Assyrian captivity; 5. the captives from the Jerusalem captivity, namely, by Titus Vespasian, who shall possess the cities of the south.
h Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 19. i Antiqu. l. 8. c. 13. sect. 2. k Scherif Ibn Idris apud Reland. Palestina Illustrata, tom. 2. l. 3. p. 935. l Epitaph. Paulae, fol. 51. M. m Journey from Aleppo, &c. p. 48. Ed. 7. n Vid. Roland. ut supra. o Dictionary, in the word “Sepharad”. p Teelmanni Specimen, & Explic. Parabol. p. 517.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
He afterwards adds, And the migrations of this host of the children of Israel, etc. There is here an obscurity in the words. The Hebrews by Canaan mean the Illyrians as well as Germans, and also the Gauls: for they say, that the migration, which shall be dispersed in Gaul, and in Germany, and in these far regions, shall possess the southern cities. Now by Zarephath they understand Spain. But we know, as we have elsewhere said, that the Jews are very bold in their glosses: for they are not ashamed to trifle and to blend frivolous things; and they assert this as though it were evident from history, and easily found out. Thus they prattle about things unknown to them, and this they do without any reason or discrimination. The Prophet, I doubt not, means here that all those territories, which had been formerly promised to the children of Abraham, would come into their possession when the Lord would send his Christ, not only to restore what had fallen, but also to render the state of the people in every way blessed. The import of the whole then is, that the Jews shall not only recover what they had lost, but what had not hitherto been given them to possess: all this the Lord would bestow on them when Christ came. It follows —
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
Oba 1:20. And the captivity of this host And those very children of Israel, who had been captives to the Canaanites, even to Zarephath, and the captives of Jerusalem, who shall have been in Sepharad, [that is to say, as some suppose, a province of Babylon] shall possess, &c. Houbigant. The prophet here foretels what might seem almost incredible; namely, that those very Jews who shall go into captivity, shall hereafter possess all the countries here mentioned; particularly those of the Edomites, whose kingdom they should destroy. All which, by universal agreement, was fulfilled in the primary sense under the Maccabees, who are literally meant by the saviours or deliverers mentioned in the next verse: but these were types of the Lord Jesus Christ and his Gospel ministers, and of the increase of his work unto the establishment of his universal reign.
REFLECTIONS.1st, The vision of Obadiah concerning Edom, the inveterate enemy of God’s people of old, and probably the type and figure of all the antichristian foes, whether Papal, Pagan, or Mahometan, which, like these of old, shall utterly be destroyed at the last.
1. An ambassador is sent among the heathen, to gather them together to battle against Idumea; either the prophet, or some other minister of Providence, or a herald dispatched by Nebuchadnezzar to summon his warriors to assemble, and his confederates to come to his assistance; see Jer 49:14-15 for when God has work to do, he has in his hands instruments ever ready.
2. Edom shall be ruined, and all her confidences shall fail, for God is her enemy. Her heathen neighbours shall treat her as little and contemptible; and, though she flatters herself that they have the same high opinion of her as she has of herself, her pride hath deceived her, as it generally does those who fancy that others value them as much as they do themselves. She thought, because her situation was strong, amid high rocks, where nature as well as art contributed to her security, that she could there defy the impotent attacks of all her foes. Thus sinners, secure in self-confidence, despise the wrath which is ready to overtake them: but, though she was as high on the rock as the eagle’s nest, yea, though her battlements reached to the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord, before whose judgments the proudest sinner cannot stand. Her wealth shall become a prey to her enemies; and the ravages of the Chaldeans shall utterly spoil the country. Though robbers by night plunder a house, they leave some things behind, and the most careful grape-gatherers cannot glean every cluster; but these shall ransack every secret place, and spare nothing, leaving the land bare as a rock. Do the Edomites place dependence on their allies? they will disappoint their expectations: though they received their ambassadors with respect, and attended them to their borders, or joined their forces as auxiliaries, and marched to the borders of Edom as if to fight their enemies, receiving subsidies and provision from the Edomites, and pretending firm attachment to their cause, yet will they betray it, desert to their invaders, and turn their arms against those who hired them; who, while they lean on them as a support, shall feel from their pretended friendly arm, a secret mortal wound. Not all the wisdom of their wise men, nor the courage of their warriors, will then be able to avail them: God hath infatuated the counsels of the one, and panic fear seizes the others, doomed to the slaughter; so that not a man of them shall escape. Thus when God contends, he will surely overcome: our wisdom will prove folly, our strength weakness, our confidence delusion, when he is our foe.
2nd, If Edom’s doom be heavy, her sins have provoked it; and, amidst all the other iniquities of that devoted people, none come deeper into the account than their violence against their brother Jacob, whose relation to them by blood, and the peculiar favour which God had shewn him, should have engaged their affection and assistance in the day of calamity; but too often we see that nearest relations shew us the least regard.
1. They had, with most malicious enmity, rejoiced in the ruin of Israel; and, in a variety of instances, helped forward their distress. God tells them what they should not have done, and therein upbraids them with what they had done. Instead of affording the Jews a friendly hand, or at least commiserating their calamity, and dropping a tear of tender compassion over their afflictions, they stood on the other side, not merely unconcerned spectators, but pleased with the scene, and helping forward the ruin of Jerusalem, when the Chaldeans entered the city, led the inhabitants captive, and divided the spoil; nay, they insulted the unhappy sufferers, and mocked at their distress. Eager to plunder, they rushed with the besiegers into the city, and pillaged whatever they laid their hands upon; and, with savage inhumanity, stood in the cross-way to seize the few who escaped from the Chaldean sword, and murdered them in cold blood, or delivered them up to their cruel enemies. For such atrocious wickedness,
2. Vengeance, such as their crimes deserved, descends upon them. The day of the Lord, that great and terrible day of wrath, approaches, when he will recompense the wickedness of the heathen, and Edom shall drink deep of the cup of his indignation. Since judgment had begun at the house of God, Edom must not think to escape! As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; when other heathen nations are destroyed, Edom shall fall in the general ruin; and, while the Jews were only captives for a while, and would be again restored, and preserved still as a people, the Edomites’ shame would be continual; they shall be cut off for ever, and be as though they had not been, their nation extirpated, and not a trace of them remaining. And thus shall the enemies of Christ and his church be at last destroyed for ever; and every antichristian foe shall be cast as a millstone into the sea, and sink, and never rise up again. Rev 18:21.
3rdly, The same cloud, which looked so dark and terrible toward the Egyptians, afforded brightness and comfort to Israel’s camp. Thus the destruction of the church’s enemies, before threatened, is accompanied with great and precious promises to her friends, in which, to the latest ages, they may rejoice.
1. Upon mount Zion shall be deliverance. God will raise up a deliverer for them in distress, as, Cyrus, and afterwards Judas Maccabaeus; but a greater deliverance than these seems here intended, even that which Jesus hath obtained for his faithful people from the bondage of Satan, sin, and death.
2. And there shall be holiness, in the Gospel church, in consequence of the deliverance obtained for them: all Christ’s faithful people shall partake of the sanctifying influences of his Spirit, and be made pure within; this being a distinguished part of the salvation which he has wrought, that we should be delivered from sin, as well as guilt and punishment.
3. The church of true believers shall be extended far and wide. The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions; as was spiritually the case when, by the preaching of the ministers of the Gospel, the gentiles gave themselves up unto the Lord: then, like fire, the word of God spread on every side, the hearts of sinners were pierced, their most beloved sins consumed, and the borders of the church were then greatly enlarged: and they shall continue to be so, till at last they shall spread from pole to pole; when the saviours, those who publish the glad tidings of salvation, shall go forth, clothed with divine energy, convincing men of sin, and turning them unto the Lord; and then the kingdoms of the world shall become the kingdoms of the Lord and his Christ.
Some suppose that the prophesy refers also to the conversion of the Jews in the last days, and to their return to their own land: that their borders will then be greatly enlarged; and, judgment being executed upon all the persecuting powers, Papal, Pagan, and Mahometan, Christ shall reign on mount Zion, and over his ancients gloriously. This, however, at least we are sure of, that the day of the Lord will come, which shall burn as an oven, when all the proud persecutors, and all who do wickedly, shall be consumed together, and God’s despised and persecuted but faithful saints shall reign with Jesus their king in glory everlasting.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Oba 1:20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel [shall possess] that of the Canaanites, [even] unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which [is] in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
Ver. 20. And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, &c. ] i.e. The multitude of the Jews carried captive to Babylon, returning at length into their own country, shall possess all the places of the Canaanites, all the maritime cities, all the tract of ground as far as Sarepta, which is between Tyre and Zidon, therefore called Sarepta of Zidon, 1Ki 17:9 . Here dwelt the Canaanites, whom Asher could not expel, Jdg 1:31-32 . See Mat 15:22 .
And the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad
Shall possess the cities of the south
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
captivity = the captives: “captivity” being put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the captives.
this host: i.e. the whole of the twelve tribes.
shall possess. Supply the Ellipsis thus: “they who are scattered among [the Canaanites]”.
even, &c. Supply “[shall possess] as far as”.
Zarephath = Sarepta, belonging to Sidon and Tyre. Sepharad is mentioned with Ionia and Greece (in the west) in the inscriptions of Behistun, vol. 1, line 15. See App-57. Jews were sold as slaves, and were taken to Spain by the Phoenicians to work in the mines near the great city of Ampuria, now being unearthed, near Figueras, in the province of Gerona. The “Jews’ houses” are still shown at Besalu.
the cities, &c. Jewish tradition declares for Spain.
south. After Oba 1:20, supply the logical Ellipsis of thought thus: “[yea. My People shall enlarge their borders on all sides], and saviours”, &c.
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the captivity of this: Jer 3:18, Jer 33:26, Eze 34:12, Eze 34:13, Hos 1:10, Hos 1:11, Amo 9:14, Amo 9:15, Zec 10:6-10
Zarephath: 1Ki 17:9, 1Ki 17:10, Luk 4:26, Sarepta
which is in Sepharad, shall possess: or, shall possess that which is in Sepharad, they shall possess, Jer 13:19, Jer 32:44, Jer 33:13
Reciprocal: Jer 30:3 – that I Jer 33:12 – in all Zec 1:17 – My cities Zec 9:2 – Zidon Zec 10:10 – into
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Oba 1:20, This verse continues the subject started in the preceding one.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Oba 1:20-21. And the captivity of this host, &c. Those of the ten tribes that were carried away captive by Shalmaneser; shall possess that of the Canaanites That is, all the countries they anciently possessed, with this addition, that what the Canaanites held by force, and the Israelites could not take from them, shall now be possessed by these returned captives. Even unto Zarephath Or Sarepta, a city near Sidon, in the northern borders of Judea, 1Ki 17:9. The Canaanites, properly so called, were the ancient inhabitants of that district: see Jdg 1:32; Mat 15:21-22. And the captivity of Jerusalem The two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, carried captive from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar; which is in Sepharad That is, as some suppose, a province of Babylon, in which the Jews resided during their captivity. Shall possess the cities of the south All the cities which were once their own. And saviours shall come upon mount Zion, &c. That is, deliverers. Taken literally, the expression may mean, the leaders of those captive troops who were to return from Babylon, such as Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah. If understood mystically, these saviours are Christ, his apostles, and the other preachers of the gospel. To judge the mount of Esau To avenge Israel upon the Edomites, or, figuratively speaking, the church of Christ upon all its enemies, here represented by Edom. Instead of saviours, the LXX., with a small alteration of the Hebrew points, read , those that are saved, or escape: namely, the same with the remnant often mentioned in the prophets, and particularly Joe 2:32, where see the note. And the kingdom shall be the Lords This will be fulfilled when the last of the four monarchies, foretold Dan 2:7, are destroyed, and the stone which smote the image becomes a great mountain, and fills the whole earth; when the God of Israel shall be honoured, obeyed, and worshipped by all mankind.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
1:20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel [shall possess] that of the {p} Canaanites, [even] unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which [is] in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
(p) By the Canaanites, the Jews mean the Dutchmen, and by Zarephath, France, and by Sepharad, Spain.