Obadiah 1:20

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)Luke 4:26. belonged to Sidon1 Kings 17:9, lying on the sea about halfway between it and Tyre. .