Obadiah 1:20

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Those who return from captivity will control Phoenicia as far as Zarephath. Captives from Jerusalem who were taken to Sepharad will capture the towns of the Southern Desert.

Cross References

Jeremiah 13:19

The cities in the Southern Desert are surrounded; no one can get in or out. Everyone in Judah will be taken away.

Jeremiah 3:18

Then, in countries to the north, you people of Judah and Israel will be reunited, and you will return to the land I gave your ancestors.

Jeremiah 32:44

But some day, people will again spend their silver to buy fields everywhere—in the territory of Benjamin, the region around Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, and in the hill country, the foothills to the west, and the Southern Desert. Buyers and sellers and witnesses will sign and seal the bills of sale for the fields. It will happen, because I will give this land back to my people. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Jeremiah 33:26

In the same way, I will never reject the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob or break my promise that they will always have a descendant of David as their king. I will be kind to my people Israel, and they will be successful again.

Ezekiel 36:12

I will bring my people Israel home, and they will live on you mountains, because you belong to them, and your fertile slopes will never again let them starve.

Luke 4:26

but Elijah was sent only to a widow in the town of Zarephath near the city of Sidon.