Obadiah is twenty-one verses long and is routinely skipped, which makes a full-length exegetical treatment of it unexpectedly valuable.

Daniel I. Block analyzes the discourse of the book and shows how the main thrust of each passage contributes to the whole composition in the original Hebrew. For each section the ZECOT gives the main idea, the literary context, the author's own translation, an exegetical outline with Hebrew layout, verse-by-verse explanation and canonical reflection.