The Kingdom of Edom

Paul rab notes the implicitly two stage process of the final verse, saviour's going up to mount zion and then ruling mount esau. He suggests that we think of the saviours here like the deliverers of the judges. The frame is not merely upon edom by itself, but dealing with the nations more generally. And in thisres we shold probably connect the book of obadiah with the end of the book of amos. In those verses, jacob's brother, edom is seen as first example of the wider nations. Its remnant is to come under the reign of the lord. That remnant of edom becoming the first of the wider nation