Genesis 32:3

New American Bible - revised edition

When Jacob saw them he said, “This is God’s encampment.” So he named that place Mahanaim. Envoys to Esau.

Cross References

Genesis 14:6

and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, as far as El-paran, close by the wilderness.

Genesis 25:30

He said to Jacob, “Let me gulp down some of that red stuff; I am famished.” That is why he was called Edom.

Genesis 32:11

I am unworthy of all the acts of kindness and faithfulness that you have performed for your servant: although I crossed the Jordan here with nothing but my staff, I have now grown into two camps.

Genesis 32:7

When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We found your brother Esau. He is now coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

Genesis 33:14

Let my lord, then, go before his servant, while I proceed more slowly at the pace of the livestock before me and at the pace of my children, until I join my lord in Seir.”

Genesis 33:16

So on that day Esau went on his way back to Seir,

2 Samuel 2:8

Abner, son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, took Ishbaal, son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim,

2 Kings 6:17

Then he prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes, that he may see.” And the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw that the mountainside was filled with fiery chariots and horses around Elisha.

1 Chronicles 12:23

And from day to day men kept coming to David’s help until there was a vast encampment, like God’s own encampment. The Assembly at Hebron.

Song of Solomon 7:1

D? Turn, turn, O Shulammite! turn, turn that we may gaze upon you! W How can you gaze upon the Shulammite as at the dance of the two camps?

Isaiah 21:11

Oracle on Dumah: They call to me from Seir, “Watchman, how much longer the night? Watchman, how much longer the night?”

Jeremiah 49:7

Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Is there no more wisdom in Teman, has counsel perished from the prudent, is their wisdom gone?

Malachi 3:1

Now I am sending my messenger— he will prepare the way before me; And the lord whom you seek will come suddenly to his temple; The messenger of the covenant whom you desire— see, he is coming! says the Lord of hosts.

Numbers 24:18

Edom will be dispossessed, and no survivor is left in Seir. Israel will act boldly,

Luke 9:52

and he sent messengers ahead of him. On the way they entered a Samaritan village to prepare for his reception there,

Deuteronomy 1:2

It is a journey of eleven days from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of the highlands of Seir.

Deuteronomy 2:22

He did the same for the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, by clearing the Horites out of their way, so that they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place down to the present.

Deuteronomy 2:5

not to come in conflict with them, for I will not give you so much as a foot of their land, since I have already given Esau possession of the highlands of Seir.

Joshua 13:30

territory including Mahanaim, all of Bashan, the entire kingdom of Og, king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are sixty cities in Bashan.

Joshua 24:4

To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned the mountain region of Seir to possess, while Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.