Genesis 36:8

New American Bible - revised edition

So Esau settled in the highlands of Seir. (Esau is Edom.)

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 32:3

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

Genesis 32:4

Jacob sent messengers ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom,

Genesis 36:1

These are the descendants of Esau (that is, Edom).

Genesis 36:43

Magdiel, and Iram. Those are the clans of the Edomites, according to their settlements in their territorial holdings—that is, of Esau, the ancestor of the Edomites.

Genesis 36:9

These are the descendants of Esau, ancestor of the Edomites, in the highlands of Seir.

1 Chronicles 4:42

Five hundred of them (the Simeonites) went to Mount Seir, with Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, sons of Ishi, at their head.

2 Chronicles 20:10

And now, see the Ammonites, Moabites, and those of Mount Seir whom you did not allow Israel to invade when they came from the land of Egypt, but instead they passed them by and did not destroy them:

2 Chronicles 20:23

For the Ammonites and Moabites set upon the inhabitants of Mount Seir and exterminated them according to the ban. And when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, each helped to destroy the other.

Jeremiah 40:11

Then all the Judahites in Moab, in Ammon, in Edom, and those in all other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had set over them Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan.

Obadiah 1:1

The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a message from the Lord, and a herald has been sent among the nations: “Rise up, so we may go to war against it!”

Obadiah 1:3

The pride of your heart has deceived you— you who dwell in mountain crevices, in your lofty home, Who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to earth?”

Malachi 1:3

Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?—oracle of the Lord. I loved Jacob, but rejected Esau; I made his mountains a waste, his heritage a desert for jackals.

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 2:4

Command the people: You are now about to pass through the territory of your relatives, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. Though they are afraid of you, be very careful

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 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.

1 Samuel 14:47

After taking possession of the kingship over Israel, Saul waged war on its enemies all around—Moab, the Ammonites, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he was successful