Genesis 25:23

Yahweh reveals that two nations are in her womb and the elder will serve the younger.

Cross-references · 25

• Rom 9:10–13Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
• Gen 27:40By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.”
• Gen 27:29Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”
• 2 Sam 8:14He put garrisons in Edom. Throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
• Mal 1:2–5“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;
• Gen 24:60They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”
• Ezek 25:12–14Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself on them;
• 1 Chr 18:13He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
• Gen 17:16I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”
• Amos 1:11–12Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;
• Isa 34:1–17Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear; the world, and everything that comes from it.
• Num 20:14Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: “Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has happened to us;
• Obad 1:1–16The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.
• Jer 49:7–22Of Edom. Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
• Ps 60:8–9Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my shoe on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia.”
• Gen 25:27The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
• 1 Kgs 22:47There was no king in Edom. A deputy ruled.
• Isa 63:1–6Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
• Gen 33:3He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
• 2 Chr 25:11–12Amaziah took courage, and led his people out, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand of the children of Seir.
• Ps 83:5–15For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
• Gen 17:4“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
• Gen 36:31These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.
• Ezek 35:1–15Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
• Gen 32:6The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him.”

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