The sons of Seir were Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
Parallel translations
- WEB The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
- KJV And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezar, and Dishan.
- BSB The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
- NASB The sons of Seir were Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
- NLT The descendants of Seir were Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
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Quick answer
The sons of Seir the Horite, the earlier inhabitants of Edom's land, are listed alongside Esau's line.
Overview
Seir's descendants were the Horites who dwelt in the region before Esau's clan settled there (Genesis 36:20-21; Deuteronomy 2:12). The Chronicler includes them to give the full ethnographic picture of Edom. Recording the displaced peoples reflects the Bible's honest accounting of how nations rose and fell under God's providence.
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- Gen 36:20–30These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
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