Place

Edom

Esau's highland nation that refused Israel passage on the king's highway — brother against brother at the border, remembered by the prophets.

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Where it is

Region: Transjordan
Kind of place: Region

Edom in Scripture

104 verses name it — the first 40, in canonical order

Genesis 25:30and Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
Genesis 32:3And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
Genesis 36:1Now these are the generations of Esau (the same is Edom).
Genesis 36:8And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
Genesis 36:16chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.
Genesis 36:17And these are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
Genesis 36:19These are the sons of Esau, and these are their chiefs: the same is Edom.
Genesis 36:21and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan: these are the chiefs that came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
Genesis 36:31And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Genesis 36:32And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
Genesis 36:43chief Magdiel, chief Iram: these are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
Exodus 15:15Then were the chiefs of Edom dismayed; The mighty men of Moab, trembling taketh hold upon them: All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.
Numbers 20:14And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
Numbers 20:18And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against thee.
Numbers 20:20And he said, Thou shalt not pass through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
Numbers 20:21Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
Numbers 20:23And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,
Numbers 21:4And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
Numbers 24:18And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession, who were his enemies; While Israel doeth valiantly.
Numbers 33:37And they journeyed from Kadesh, and encamped in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
Numbers 34:3then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward;
Joshua 15:1And the lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was unto the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.
Joshua 15:21And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
Judges 5:4Jehovah, when thou wentest forth out of Seir, When thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water.
Judges 11:17then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land; but the king of Edom hearkened not. And in like manner he sent unto the king of Moab; but he would not: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
Judges 11:18Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they came not within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.
1 Samuel 14:47Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he put them to the worse.
2 Samuel 6:10So David would not remove the ark of Jehovah unto him into the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
2 Samuel 6:11And the ark of Jehovah remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and Jehovah blessed Obed-edom, and all his house.
2 Samuel 6:12And it was told king David, saying, Jehovah hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. And David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with joy.
2 Samuel 8:14And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And Jehovah gave victory to David whithersoever he went.
1 Kings 9:26And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
1 Kings 11:14And Jehovah raised up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king’s seed in Edom.
1 Kings 11:15For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, and had smitten every male in Edom
1 Kings 11:16(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);
1 Kings 22:47And there was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
2 Kings 3:8And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way of the wilderness of Edom.
2 Kings 3:9So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days’ journey: and there was no water for the host, nor for the beasts that followed them.
2 Kings 3:12And Jehoshaphat said, The word of Jehovah is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
2 Kings 3:20And it came to pass in the morning, about the time of offering the oblation, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

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