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The Talmud (Sanhedrin 39b) identifies Obadiah as the Obadiahu mentioned in 1 Kings 18:3, the righteous overseer of King Ahab's house, who risked his life to save 100 prophets from certain death at the hands of Jezebel.
Obadiah was a righteous convert, a descendant of the nation of Edom.
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∙ 15y agoIn his "MacArthur Study Bible" Dr John MacArthur says Obadiah was probably a contemporary of Elijah and Elisha, and wrote the Book of Obadiah soon after the Edomite assault on Jerusalem in verses 10-14 between 848-841BC during the reign of Jehoram of Judah.
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∙ 6y agoOvadiah lived in the land of the Ten Tribes of Israel in the time of Eliyahu (Elijah). Traditional chronology places this around 730 BCE, while non-traditional opinions may put it over a century earlier.
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∙ 14y agoBorn in Sechem, supposedly died in Samaria. In between, who knows for sure...
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∙ 12y agoWe don't know! He doesn't give any dates in his prophecy. However, it was probably in the ninth century B.C.
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