So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.
Parallel translations
- WEB Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
- KJV Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
- NKJV So Esau dwelt in Mount Seir. Esau is Edom.
- NASB So Esau lived in the hill country of Seir; Esau is Edom.
- NLT So Esau (also known as Edom) settled in the hill country of Seir.
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Esau settles in the hill country of Seir; Esau is Edom.
Overview
Esau makes his home in Seir, the rugged region that becomes the homeland of Edom. The identification 'Esau is Edom' ties the man to the nation descended from him. His settlement fulfills God's earlier word that Esau would dwell apart and that two distinct peoples would arise from Isaac's sons.
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- Gen 32:3Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
- Mal 1:3but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
- Ezek 35:2–7“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,
- Gen 36:19–20All these are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and they were their chiefs.
- Gen 14:6and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.
- 2 Chr 20:23The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction. And when they had made an end to the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
- Josh 24:4and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
- 1 Chr 4:42And five hundred of these Simeonites led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, went to Mount Seir
- 2 Chr 20:10And now, here are the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt; but Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.
- Deut 2:5Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a footprint, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as his possession.
- Gen 36:1This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).
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