Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
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Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
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Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
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And Esau dwelt in the mountain-land of Seir — Esau is Edom.
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Passages linked to Genesis 36:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 32:3 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
- Malachi 1:3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
- Ezekiel 35:2-7 “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, and tell it, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you. I will make you a desolation and an astonishment. I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am Yahweh. “ ‘ “Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end; therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you. Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation. I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.
- Genesis 14:6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.
- Genesis 36:1 Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).
- Genesis 36:19-20 These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs. These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
- Deuteronomy 2:5 Don’t contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
- Joshua 24:4 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
- 1 Chronicles 4:42 Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
- 2 Chronicles 20:10 Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned away from them, and didn’t destroy them;
- 2 Chronicles 20:23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. When they had finished the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy each other.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain This seems to be mentioned by the Holy Ghost…
This seems to be mentioned by the Holy Ghost by way of contempt or reproach; this is he who sold his birthright for a mess of red pottage, and therefore was called
Edom or red.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And these are the generations of Esau,.... Or the…
And these are the generations of Esau,.... Or the posterity of Esau, his children and grandchildren, as before and hereafter related:
the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir; from whom they of that mountain and in the adjacent country had the name of Edomites or Idumeans.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir - Whatever opposition…
Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir - Whatever opposition may be made, God's word will take place, and even those that have opposed it will see themselves, some time or other, under a necessity of yielding to it. Esau had struggled for Canaan, but now he retires to mount Seir; for God's counsels shall certainly stand concerning the times before appointed, and the bounds of our habitation.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Gen 36:8. Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir —…
Gen 36:8. Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir — Whatever opposition may be made, God’s word will take place, and his counsels shall stand concerning the times before appointed, and the bounds of our habitation.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir--This was divinely assigned…
Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir--This was divinely assigned as his possession (Jos 24:4; Deu 2:5).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8. mount Seir] The mountain country of Seir, a…
8. mount Seir] The mountain country of Seir, a region, not a mountain, lying to the east of the Arabah.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (8) Mount Seir.—The land of Idumea extends from the…
(8) Mount Seir.—The land of Idumea extends from the southern extremity of the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Elath, and consists of a chain of mountains running parallel to the Akaba, or continuation of the deep depression through which the Jordan flows till it loses itself in the Dead Sea. The hills are of limestone, with masses here and there of basalt; and though large portions are so covered with stones as to be barren, the rest is moderately fertile, not indeed in corn, but in figs, pomegranates, and other fruits. The climate is pleasant, the heat in summer being moderated by cool winds, but the winters are cold. The border of it was distant only some fifty or sixty miles from Hebron, so that Esau’s transference of himself thither was an easy matter. (Comp. Note on Gen_27:39.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir (Gen_32:3; Deu_2:5; Jos_24:4)…
Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir (Gen_32:3; Deu_2:5; Jos_24:4) Esau is Edom. (vide Gen_25:30) The obvious continuation of this verse m to be found in Gen_37:1, so that vers. 9-40 are parenthetical in their character; but whether originally written by Moses, or inserted by a late redactor, as some maintain, may legitimately be regarded as an open question.
HOMILIES BY R.A. REDFORD Ver. 8.
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Esau separates from Jacob.
I GOD REQUIRES ENTIRE DEVOTEDNESS AND FAITH. Edom is allied to the true kingdom, but is not one with it. We may keep in mind the relationship between the descendants of the two brothers, that we may learn the more clearly to distinguish the true heirs of the blessing.
II THE TRUE BELIEVERS SET APART BY SPECIAL GRACE. The rest of the Book of Genesis follows the course of the one family in whose midst the ark of the covenant, as it were, was already resting, where was
(1) the revelation of God and
(2) the special manifestation of his favor, and out of which should come forth
(3) the people among the peoples, the kingdom among the kingdoms, the Goshen in the Egypt, the seed of life in the world of death. R.
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