Genesis 36:8

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Summary

Genesis 36:8

Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

Mount seir

Bible References

Mount seir

These are the sons of Seir the Horite,
the inhabitants of the land:
Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

and the Horites in the mountains of Seir, as far as El-paran by the wilderness.

Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

Don’t fight with them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even an inch of it, because I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his possession.

and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave the hill country of Seir to Esau as a possession, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

Now 500 men from these sons of Simeon went with Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, as their leaders to Mount Seir.

Now here are the Ammonites, Moabites, and the inhabitants of Mount Seir. You did not let Israel invade them when Israel came out of the land of Egypt, but Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.

“Son of man, turn your face toward Mount Seir and prophesy against it.

but I hated Esau. I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”