Genesis 36:31

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom before there was any king over the children of Israel.

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  • Gen 17:6 : 6 I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.
  • Gen 17:16 : 16 And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.
  • 1 Chr 1:43-50 : 43 Now these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom, before there was any king over Israel: Bela, the son of Beor; his town was named Dinhabah. 44 At his death, Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, became king in his place. 45 At the death of Jobab, Husham, from the land of the Temanites, became king in his place. 46 And at the death of Husham, Hadad, the son of Bedad, who overcame Midian in the field of Moab, became king; his town was named Avith. 47 And at the death of Hadad, Samlah of Masrekah became king in his place. 48 And at the death of Samlah, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river became king in his place, 49 And at the death of Shaul, Baal-hanan, the son of Achbor, became king in his place. 50 And at the death of Baal-hanan, Hadad became king in his place; his town was named Pai, and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.
  • Gen 25:23 : 23 And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your body, and two peoples will come to birth from you: the one will be stronger than the other, and the older will be the servant of the younger.
  • Num 20:14 : 14 Then Moses sent men from Kadesh to the king of Edom to say to him, Your brother Israel says, You have knowledge of all the things we have been through;
  • Num 24:17-18 : 17 I see him, but not now: looking on him, but not near: a star will come out of Jacob, and a rod of authority out of Israel, sending destruction to the farthest limits of Moab and on the head of all the sons of Sheth. 18 Edom will be his heritage, and he will put an end to the last of the people of Seir.
  • Deut 17:14-20 : 14 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you; 15 Then see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of yourselves. 16 And he is not to get together a great army of horses for himself, or make the people go back to Egypt to get horses for him: because the Lord has said, You will never again go back that way. 17 And he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold. 18 And when he has taken his place on the seat of his kingdom, he is to make in a book a copy of this law, from that which the priests, the Levites, have in their care: 19 And it is to be with him for his reading all the days of his life, so that he may be trained in the fear of the Lord his God to keep and do all the words of this teaching and these laws: 20 So that his heart may not be lifted up over his countrymen, and he may not be turned away from the orders, to one side or the other: but that his life and the lives of his children may be long in his kingdom in Israel.
  • Deut 33:5 : 5 And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel came together.
  • Deut 33:29 : 29 Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people whose saviour is the Lord, whose help is your cover, whose sword is your strength! All those who are against you will put themselves under your rule, and your feet will be planted on their high places.

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  • 1 Chr 1:42-44
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    42 The sons of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

    43 Now these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom, before there was any king over Israel: Bela, the son of Beor; his town was named Dinhabah.

    44 At his death, Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, became king in his place.

  • Gen 36:32-34
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    32 Bela, son of Beor, was king in Edom, and the name of his chief town was Dinhabah.

    33 At his death, Jobab, son of Zerah of Bozrah, became king in his place.

    34 And at the death of Jobab, Husham, from the country of the Temanites, became king in his place.

  • 1 Kgs 22:47
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    47 At that time there was no king in Edom;

  • Gen 36:19-21
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    19 These were the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these were their chiefs.

    20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite who were living in that country; Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

    21 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan: these are the chiefs of the Horites, offspring of Seir in the land of Edom.

  • Gen 36:29-30
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    29 These were the Horite chiefs: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

    30 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. Such were the Horite chiefs in their order in the land of Seir.

  • Gen 36:1
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    1 Now these are the generations of Esau, that is to say, Edom.

  • Gen 36:40-43
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    74%

    40 These are the names of the chiefs of Esau in the order of their families and their places: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

    41 Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,

    42 Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,

    43 Magdiel, Iram; these are the Edomite chiefs, in their places in their heritage; this is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

  • Gen 36:8-9
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    8 So Esau made his living-place in the hill-country of Seir (Esau is Edom).

    9 And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites in the hill-country of Seir:

  • 2 Chr 21:8
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    8 In his time Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, and took a king for themselves.

  • 1 Chr 1:51-54
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    51 And Hadad came to his end. Now the chiefs of Edom were: the chief of Timna, the chief of Aliah, the chief of Jetheth,

    52 The chief of Oholibamah, the chief of Elah, the chief of Pinon,

    53 The chief of Kenaz, the chief of Teman, the chief of Mibzar,

    54 The chief of Magdiel, the chief of Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.

  • 2 Kgs 8:20
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    20 In his time, Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, and took a king for themselves.

  • Gen 36:15-17
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    15 These were the chiefs among the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, Esau's first son: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,

    16 Korah, Gatam, Amalek: all these were chiefs in the land of Edom, the offspring of Eliphaz, the seed of Adah.

    17 And these are the sons of Esau's son Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, Mizzah: these were the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom, the children of Esau's wife Basemath.

  • 1 Chr 1:34-35
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    68%

    34 And Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

    35 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel and Jeush and Jalam and Korah.

  • Jer 25:21
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    21 Edom and Moab and the children of Ammon,

  • Josh 12:1
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    1 Now these are the kings of the land whom the children of Israel overcame, taking as their heritage their land on the east side of Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah to the east:

  • Judg 11:17
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    17 Then Israel sent men to the king of Edom saying, Let me now go through your land; but the king of Edom did not give ear to them. And in the same way he sent to the king of Moab, but he would not; so Israel went on living in Kadesh.

  • 1 Chr 29:26
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    26 Now David, the son of Jesse, was king over all Israel.

  • Deut 2:12
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    12 And the Horites in earlier times were living in Seir, but the children of Esau took their place; they sent destruction on them and took their land for themselves, as Israel did to the land of his heritage which the Lord gave them.)

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
    67%

    15 And when David had sent destruction on Edom, and Joab, the captain of the army, had gone to put the dead into the earth, and had put to death every male in Edom;

  • Ps 135:11
    66%

    11 Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan;

  • Num 24:18
    66%

    18 Edom will be his heritage, and he will put an end to the last of the people of Seir.

  • 1 Kgs 12:17
    66%

    17 (But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.)