Edom’s treachery to Israel went even to the point of chasing down individuals running for their lives and handing them over to the enemy. But by acting that way the Edomites displayed ignorance of a vital fact. How?

‘THE DAY OF JEHOVAH IS NEAR’

Jehovah went on to say: “For the day of Jehovah against all the nations is near. In the way that you have done, it will be done to you. Your sort of treatment will return upon your own head.

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Not only the Edomites, but all nations hostile to God’s chosen nation would one day become “as though they had never happened to be.”