Genesis 36:8

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So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.

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  • Gen 32:3 : 3 When Jacob saw them, he said, 'This is God's camp.' So he named that place Mahanaim (Two Camps).
  • Gen 36:1 : 1 These are the descendants of Esau, who is Edom.
  • Gen 36:19-20 : 19 These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs. 20 These were the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, and Anah,
  • Deut 2:5 : 5 Do not provoke them to conflict, for I will not give you even a footstep of their land, because I have given Mount Seir as a possession to Esau.'
  • Josh 24:4 : 4 And to Isaac, I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave the hill country of Seir to Esau to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
  • 1 Chr 4:42 : 42 Some of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir. Their leaders were Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
  • 2 Chr 20:10 : 10 'But now, here are the men from Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whose land you would not let Israel invade when they came from Egypt; so they turned away from them and did not destroy them.'
  • 2 Chr 20:23 : 23 The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the men from Mount Seir to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
  • Ezek 35:2-7 : 2 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it. 3 Say to it, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolate wasteland.' 4 I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 5 Because you have harbored eternal hostility and delivered the Israelites to the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment, 6 therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will make you a land of bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you. 7 I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate waste and cut off from it all who come and go.
  • Mal 1:3 : 3 but Esau I have hated. I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and given his inheritance to the wild creatures of the desert.
  • Gen 14:6 : 6 and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El-Paran, which is near the wilderness.

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  • Gen 36:9-10
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    9These are the descendants of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the hill country of Seir.

    10These 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.

  • Gen 36:1-2
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    1These are the descendants of Esau, who is Edom.

    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.

  • Gen 36:42-43
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    42Chief Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar,

    43Chief Magdiel, and Chief Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom according to their settlements in the land they possessed. Esau was the father of the Edomites.

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

    20These were the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, and Anah,

    21and Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These were the chiefs of the Horites, the descendants of Seir, in the land of Edom.

  • Gen 33:16
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    16So that day, Esau started back on his way to Seir.

  • Gen 36:4-7
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    4Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, and Basemath bore Reuel.

    5And Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

    6Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, along with his livestock, all his animals, and all the possessions he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and he moved to a land away from his brother Jacob.

    7Their possessions were too great for them to live together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.

  • Deut 2:12
    76%

    12The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them. They destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land the LORD gave them as their possession.

  • Gen 32:3
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    3When Jacob saw them, he said, 'This is God's camp.' So he named that place Mahanaim (Two Camps).

  • 1 Chr 1:34-35
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    34Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac were Esau and Israel.

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

  • Josh 24:4
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    4And to Isaac, I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave the hill country of Seir to Esau to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

  • Gen 36:40
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    40These are the names of Esau's chiefs according to their families and regions, by their names: Chief Timna, Chief Alvah, Chief Jetheth,

  • Num 24:18
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    18Edom will become a possession; Seir, his enemy, will also be a possession. But Israel will grow strong.

  • Gen 25:30
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    30Esau said to Jacob, 'Let me gulp down some of that red stew, for I am exhausted.' This is why he was also called Edom.

  • Deut 2:4-5
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    72%

    4And he commanded the people, saying, ‘You are about to pass through the territory of your relatives, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so be very careful.

    5Do not provoke them to conflict, for I will not give you even a footstep of their land, because I have given Mount Seir as a possession to Esau.'

  • Gen 36:30-31
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    30Chief Dishon, Chief Ezer, and Chief Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, according to their clans in the land of Seir.

    31These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:

  • Deut 2:22
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    22The LORD did the same for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir when He destroyed the Horites before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.

  • Gen 27:39
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    39His father Isaac answered him, 'Your dwelling will be away from the richness of the earth and away from the dew of heaven above.'

  • Gen 36:15
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    15These are the chiefs among Esau’s descendants: the sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: Chief Teman, Chief Omar, Chief Zepho, Chief Kenaz,

  • Gen 25:27
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    27The boys grew up, and Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed among the tents.

  • Gen 36:17
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    17These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: Chief Nahath, Chief Zerah, Chief Shammah, Chief Mizzah. These are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the descendants of Basemath, Esau’s wife.

  • Deut 2:8
    70%

    8So we passed by our relatives, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, and we turned from the road through the Arabah, bypassing Elath and Ezion-geber. Then we moved on and journeyed along the wilderness road of Moab.

  • Jer 49:10
    70%

    10But I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he cannot hide. His descendants, brothers, and neighbors are destroyed, and he is no more.

  • Gen 27:41
    70%

    41Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, 'The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.'