ESAU

Passages on this topic · 45

• Genesis 25:19

  This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

• Genesis 25:20

  Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

• Genesis 25:21

  Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

• Genesis 25:22

  The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is so, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yahweh.

• 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 25:24

  When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

• Genesis 25:25

  The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.

• Genesis 25:26

  After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

• Genesis 25:27

  The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

• Genesis 25:28

  Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

• Genesis 25:29

  Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

• Genesis 25:30

  Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.

• Genesis 25:31

  Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”

• Genesis 25:32

  Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”

• Genesis 25:33

  Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

• Genesis 25:34

  Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

• Genesis 26:34

  When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

• Genesis 26:35

  They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.

• Genesis 28:9

  Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

• Genesis 33:1

  Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants.

• Genesis 35:29

  Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

• Genesis 36:1

  Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).

• Genesis 36:2

  Esau 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;

• Genesis 36:3

  and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebaioth.

• Genesis 36:8

  Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.

• 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.

• 1 Chronicles 1:34

  Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

• 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 49:10

  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.

• Obadiah 1:6

  How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

• Obadiah 1:8

  “Won’t I in that day”, says Yahweh, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?

• Obadiah 1:9

  Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

• Obadiah 1:10

  For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

• 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 1:18

  The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.

• Obadiah 1:19

  Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.

• Obadiah 1:20

  The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.

• 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;

• Romans 9:13

  Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

• Hebrews 11:20

  By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

• Hebrews 12:16

  lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.