and the Horites on their Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is by the wilderness.
Parallel translations
- WEB and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.
- KJV And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
- BSB and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.
- NKJV and the Horites in their mountain of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is by the wilderness.
- NLT and the Horites at Mount Seir, as far as El-paran at the edge of the wilderness.
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Quick answer
They also struck the Horites in Mount Seir as far as El Paran. The campaign extends through the southern wilderness.
Overview
Continuing south, the eastern kings defeat the Horites of Seir, the region later associated with Edom. The sweeping itinerary shows the breadth and success of their conquest. Such overwhelming force sets the stage for the surprising deliverance God will accomplish through Abram.
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- Deut 2:22as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day:
- Gen 21:21He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
- Deut 2:12The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
- Num 13:3Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh. All them were men who were heads of the children of Israel.
- Num 12:16Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
- 1 Chr 1:38–42The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
- Gen 16:7Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
- Num 10:12The children of Israel went forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.
- Gen 36:20–30These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
- Gen 36:8Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
- Hab 3:3God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
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