EDOMITES

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• Genesis 25:23

  Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.”

• Genesis 27:29

  Let 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.”

• Genesis 27:37

  Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”

• Genesis 27:38

  Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

• Genesis 27:39

  Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.

• Genesis 27:40

  By 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.”

• Genesis 32:3

  Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

• Genesis 36:9

  This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:

• Genesis 36:10

  these are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau.

• Genesis 36:11

  The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

• Genesis 36:12

  Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau’s wife.

• Genesis 36:13

  These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.

• Genesis 36:14

  These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

• Genesis 36:15

  These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,

• Genesis 36:16

  chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.

• Genesis 36:17

  These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.

• Genesis 36:18

  These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife.

• Genesis 36:19

  These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.

• Genesis 36:20

  These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

• Genesis 36:21

  Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.

• Genesis 36:22

  The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan’s sister was Timna.

• Genesis 36:23

  These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

• Genesis 36:24

  These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.

• Genesis 36:25

  These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.

• Genesis 36:26

  These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

• Genesis 36:27

  These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.

• Genesis 36:28

  These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

• Genesis 36:29

  These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,

• Genesis 36:30

  chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan: these are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.

• Genesis 36:31

  These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.

• Genesis 36:32

  Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhabah.

• Genesis 36:33

  Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.

• Genesis 36:34

  Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

• Genesis 36:35

  Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith.

• Genesis 36:36

  Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.

• Genesis 36:37

  Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his place.

• Genesis 36:38

  Shaul died, and Baal Hanan, the son of Achbor reigned in his place.

• Genesis 36:39

  Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

• Genesis 36:40

  These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau, according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,

• Genesis 36:41

  chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,

• Genesis 36:42

  chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,

• Genesis 36:43

  chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

• Exodus 15:15

  Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

• Numbers 20:14

  Moses 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;

• Numbers 20:18

  Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.”

• Numbers 20:19

  The children of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway; and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will give its price. Only let me, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet.”

• Numbers 20:20

  He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.

• Numbers 20:21

  Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.

• Numbers 24:18

  Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.

• Deuteronomy 2:4

  Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore be careful.

• Deuteronomy 2:5

  Don’t contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.

• Deuteronomy 2:6

  You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat. You shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.’”

• Deuteronomy 2:12

  The 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.)

• Deuteronomy 23:7

  You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

• Deuteronomy 23:8

  The children of the third generation who are born to them may enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

• 1 Samuel 14:47

  Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned himself, he defeated them.

• 2 Samuel 8:14

  He 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.

• 1 Kings 11:14

  Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon: Hadad the Edomite. He was one of the king’s offspring in Edom.

• 1 Kings 11:15

  For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom

• 1 Kings 11:16

  (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);

• 1 Kings 22:47

  There was no king in Edom. A deputy ruled.

• 2 Kings 3:9

  So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched for seven days along a circuitous route. There was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.

• 2 Kings 3:26

  When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew a sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.

• 2 Kings 8:20

  In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

• 2 Kings 8:21

  Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.

• 2 Kings 8:22

  So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

• 2 Kings 14:5

  As soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, he killed his servants who had slain the king his father,

• 2 Kings 14:6

  but the children of the murderers he didn’t put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”

• 2 Kings 14:7

  He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.

• 2 Kings 14:10

  You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”

• 1 Chronicles 1:43

  Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

• 1 Chronicles 1:44

  Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 1:45

  Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 1:46

  Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.

• 1 Chronicles 1:47

  Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 1:48

  Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 1:49

  Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 1:50

  Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pai: and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

• 1 Chronicles 1:51

  Then Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth,

• 1 Chronicles 1:52

  chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,

• 1 Chronicles 1:53

  chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,

• 1 Chronicles 1:54

  chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.

• 1 Chronicles 18:11

  King David also dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, from Moab, from the children of Ammon, from the Philistines, and from Amalek.

• 1 Chronicles 18:12

  Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

• 1 Chronicles 18:13

  He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

• 2 Chronicles 20:20

  They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

• 2 Chronicles 20:23

  For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them: and when they had finished the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another.

• 2 Chronicles 21:8

  In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

• 2 Chronicles 21:9

  Then Jehoram went there with his captains and all his chariots with him. He rose up by night and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, along with the captains of the chariots.

• 2 Chronicles 21:10

  So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his fathers.

• 2 Chronicles 25:11

  Amaziah took courage, and led his people out, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand of the children of Seir.

• 2 Chronicles 25:12

  The children of Judah carried away ten thousand alive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and threw them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.

• 2 Chronicles 28:17

  For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives.

• Psalms 60:8

  Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my shoe on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia.”

• Psalms 60:9

  Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom?

• Psalms 108:9

  Moab is my wash pot. I will toss my sandal on Edom. I will shout over Philistia.”

• Psalms 108:10

  Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?

• Psalms 137:7

  Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”

• Isaiah 11:14

  They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.

• Isaiah 21:11

  The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”

• Isaiah 21:12

  The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”

• Isaiah 63:1

  Who 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.”

• Isaiah 63:2

  Why is your clothing red, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?

• Isaiah 63:3

  “I have trodden the wine press alone; and of the peoples, no one was with me: Yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.

• Isaiah 63:4

  For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.

• Jeremiah 9:25

  “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:

• Jeremiah 9:26

  Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”

• Jeremiah 27:1

  In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

• Jeremiah 27:2

  Yahweh says to me: “Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck.

• Jeremiah 27:3

  Then send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

• Jeremiah 27:4

  Give them a command to their masters, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “You shall tell your masters:

• Jeremiah 27:5

  ‘I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.

• Jeremiah 27:6

  Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him.

• Jeremiah 27:7

  All the nations will serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant.

• Jeremiah 27:8

  “‘“‘It will happen that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish,’ says Yahweh, ‘with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

• Jeremiah 27:9

  But as for you, don’t you listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon;”

• Jeremiah 27:10

  for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.

• Jeremiah 27:11

  But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that nation will I let remain in their own land,’ says Yahweh; ‘and they shall till it, and dwell therein.’”’”

• Jeremiah 49:7

  Of Edom. Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

• Jeremiah 49:8

  Flee! Turn back! Dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him when I visit him.

• Jeremiah 49:9

  If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves came by night, wouldn’t they steal until they had enough?

• Jeremiah 49:10

  But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he will not be able to hide himself. His offspring is destroyed, with his brothers and his neighbors; and he is no more.

• Jeremiah 49:11

  Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”

• Jeremiah 49:12

  For Yahweh says: “Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who shall altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink.

• Jeremiah 49:13

  For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”

• Jeremiah 49:14

  I have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Gather yourselves together! Come against her! Rise up to the battle!”

• Jeremiah 49:15

  “For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.

• Jeremiah 49:16

  As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 49:17

  “Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all its plagues.

• Jeremiah 49:18

  As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh, “no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein.

• Jeremiah 49:19

  “Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”

• Jeremiah 49:20

  Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.

• Jeremiah 49:21

  The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.

• Jeremiah 49:22

  Behold, he will come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah. The heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

• Lamentations 4:21

  Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked.

• Lamentations 4:22

  The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins.

• Ezekiel 25:12

  Thus 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;

• Ezekiel 25:13

  therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even to Dedan shall they fall by the sword.

• Ezekiel 25:14

  I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel; and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 32:29

  There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.

• Ezekiel 32:30

  There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame; and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

• Ezekiel 35:3

  and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.

• Ezekiel 35:4

  I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 35:5

  Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

• Ezekiel 35:6

  therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

• Ezekiel 35:7

  Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.

• Ezekiel 35:8

  I will fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses shall they fall who are slain with the sword.

• Ezekiel 35:9

  I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 35:10

  Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there:

• Ezekiel 36:5

  therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.

• Joel 3:19

  Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

• Amos 1:9

  Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole community to Edom, and didn’t remember the brotherly covenant;

• Amos 1:10

  but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will devour its palaces.”

• Amos 1:11

  Yahweh 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;

• Amos 1:12

  but I will send a fire on Teman, and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.”

• Amos 2:1

  Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;

• Amos 9:12

  that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name,” says Yahweh who does this.

• Obadiah 1:11

  In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.

• Obadiah 1:12

  But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

• Obadiah 1:13

  Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

• Obadiah 1:14

  Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

• Obadiah 1:15

  For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

• Obadiah 1:16

  For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.

• Obadiah 1:21

  Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.

• Malachi 1:2

  “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;

• Malachi 1:3

  but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”

• Malachi 1:4

  Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places”; Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”

• Malachi 1:5

  Your eyes will see, and you will say, “Yahweh is great — even beyond the border of Israel!”