Edom, ancient land bordering ancient Israel, in what is now southwestern Jordan, between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. The Edomites probably occupied the area about the 13th century bc.What is the meaning of a edomite?: a member of a Semitic people living south of the Dead Sea in...
So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.Exodus 15:15Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,Deuteronomy 23:7Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an ...
Amos 2:1 sn The Moabites apparently desecrated the tomb of an Edomite king and burned his bones into a calcined substance which they then used as plaster (cf. Deut 27:2, 4). See S. M. Paul, Amos (Hermeneia), 72. Receiving a proper burial was very important in this culture. Desecrat...
The Syro-Ephraimite War that occurred in 736 BCE -732 BCE included kings, Philistines, Edomite’s and people taken away as slaves. One of the major prophets Isaiah began to challenge the policies that were instituted by the Judahite King Ahaz. Yahweh chose Isaiah to give advice to the King...
“Jews”were in the land when Jesus came, and disputed with Him on spiritual and moral questions. These“Jews”were partly“Israel”and partly“Esau”because of their intermarriages. In Jesus’ time, the ruler was Herod who was an Edomite, or from Esau. Esau had intermarried with the ...
Qos (Edomite: ??? Qāws; Hebrew: קוס Qōs; Greek: Kωζαι Kozai, also Qōs, Qaus, Koze)was the national god of the Edomites. He was the Idumean rival of Yahweh, and structurally parallel to him. Thus Benqos (son of Qōs) parallels the Hebrew Beniyahu (son ...
Amos 2:1 sn The Moabites apparently desecrated the tomb of an Edomite king and burned his bones into a calcined substance which they then used as plaster (cf. Deut 27:2, 4). See S. M. Paul, Amos (Hermeneia), 72. Receiving a proper burial was very important in this culture. Desecrat...
The Lord raised an adversary (satan)to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite(1 Kings 11:14) It also says,And God raised up against him an adversary (satan), Rezon, son of Eliada(I Kings 11:23). Both of these were mortal men. … So commonly is this word (satan) applied to people who ...
At the head of the Nabatean pantheon was Dushara, “He of the Shara” (the mountains around Petra), later identified with the Greek god Zeus and the Syrian Hadad. The fact that his name is so closely tied to the locality indicates that he may originally have been an Edomite, rather tha...
R. Bartlett, “The Edomite King-List of Genesis 36:31-39 and 1 Chronicles 1:43-50,” JTS 16 [1965]: 301-14; and W. J. Horowitz, “Were There Twelve Horite Tribes?” CBQ 35 [1973]: 69-71). In the format of the Book of Genesis, the line of Esau is “tidied up” before ...