Land Of Edom

The Edomites were the descendants King Saul fought against them in battle of Esau by Hittite and Ishmaelite wives (I Samuel 14:47).

(Genesis 25:30, 36:8-19). They took Saul’s chief herdsman was Doeg the their land from the troglodyte Horites Edomite (I Samuel 21 :7). Nabataeans (means: Cave dwellers, (Deuteronomy invaded their land in the middle of the 2:12); (Genesis 36:20-30); (I sixth century BC, and the Edomites Chronicles 1 :38)). Their boundaries moved to southern Palestine (Isaiah were the Wadi Zered to the Red Sea 34:5-6); (Ezekiel 25:12-14, 35:15, (Genesis 14:6, 32:3, 36:l-22); (Exodus 36:5); (Zechariah 7:7) Their land in the 15:15); (Numbers 33:37, 34:3); Negev was called Idumea (Mark 3:7- (Deuteronomy 2: 13-1 8); (Joshua 15:l); 8). They were a people known as cave (Judges 11 :17). The list of the dwellers, shepherds and warriors descendants and families of Esau are (Genesis 36, Jeremiah 49, Obadiah 1). in (Genesis 36:9-14). Other references are (Isaiah 34:5-8, Eliphaz, the friend of Job, was 63:l-4); (Jeremiah 49:7-22); probably a distant descendent of Esau (Lamentations 4:21); (Ezekiel 25:12- (Job 2:11, 4:1, 15:1, 22:l). The list of 14); (Amos 1 :6-12); (Obadiah 1-10).

The ancient chiefs is recorded in (Genesis 36: 15-1 9). They developed into a kingdom and the list of the ancient kings is in (Genesis 36:31-39); (I Chronicles 1:43-54). There is also the list of tribal chiefs, after falling under David’s kingdom (Genesis 36:40-43); (I Chronicles 1 :51). They refused to allow the Israelites to Pass through their land (Numbers 20:14-23, 21:4); (Deut. 2:l-8) at the time of the Israelite exodus.