BRIEF PROLOGUE TO BOOK OF OBADIAH. Obadiah the prophet to Edom, where the inhabitant descendants of Esau had settled in and around Mt. Seir, decries the wicked past of Edom’s enmity towards Israel. From earliest times the animosity had grown from year to year. We think of the initial wilderness wanderers journeying at last to … Continue reading UNDERSTANDING 16 PROPHETS: Obadiah.