These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
Parallel translations
- KJV These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
- BSB These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who were living in the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
- ESV These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
- NKJV These were the sons of Seir the Horite who inhabited the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
- NASB These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
- NLT These are the names of the tribes that descended from Seir the Horite. They lived in the land of Edom: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
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Quick answer
This begins the genealogy of Seir the Horite, the original inhabitants of the land Esau settled. It explains who lived in Edom before Esau.
Overview
The record turns to the Horites, the people who lived in Seir before Esau's descendants took the region. Naming their clan heads explains the land's earlier population and Esau's intermarriage with them. Deuteronomy 2:12 notes that Esau's sons dispossessed the Horites, just as Israel would later take Canaan, showing God's hand in the rise and fall of nations.
Cross-references & the web
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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:
- 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.)
- Gen 14:6and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.
- 1 Chr 1:38–42The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
- Gen 36:22–30The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan’s sister was Timna.
- Gen 36:2Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
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