Genesis 32:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 14:6

and the Horites in the hill country of Seir as far as El-paran on the edge of the wilderness;

Genesis 25:30

Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, for I am famished!” (Therefore he was called Edom.)

Genesis 32:11

Deliver me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him; he may come and kill us all, the mothers with the children.

Genesis 32:7

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed, and he divided the people who were with him and the flocks and herds and camels into two companies,

Genesis 33:14

Let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”

Genesis 33:16

So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

2 Samuel 2:8

But Abner son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbaal son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.

2 Kings 6:17

Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see.” So the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw; the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

1 Chronicles 12:23

These are the numbers of the divisions of the armed troops who came to David in Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him, according to the word of the Lord.

Song of Solomon 7:1

How graceful are your feet in sandals, O queenly maiden! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.

Isaiah 21:11

The oracle concerning Dumah. One is calling to me from Seir, “Sentinel, what of the night? Sentinel, what of the night?”

Jeremiah 49:7

Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

Malachi 3:1

See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

Numbers 24:18

Edom will become a possession, Seir a possession of its enemies, while Israel does valiantly.

Luke 9:52

And he sent messengers ahead of him. On their way they entered a village of the Samaritans to prepare for his arrival,

Deuteronomy 1:2

(By the way of Mount Seir it takes eleven days to reach Kadesh-barnea from Horeb.)

Deuteronomy 2:22

He did the same for the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, by destroying the Horites before them so that they could dispossess them and settle in their place even to this day.

Deuteronomy 2:5

not to engage in battle with them, for I will not give you even so much as a foot’s length of their land, since I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

Joshua 13:30

Their territory extended from Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of King Og of Bashan, and all the settlements of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty towns,

Joshua 24:4

and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.