"Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau {is} Edom." — Genesis 36:8

Genesis 36:8 · KJV

“Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau {is} Edom.”

— Genesis 36:8

For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

Verse 9

And these {are} the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir: {the Edomites: Heb. Edom}

Genesis 36 — Context

And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob. {persons: Heb. souls}

For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau {is} Edom.

And these {are} the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir: {the Edomites: Heb. Edom}

These {are} the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.

Cross References

Genesis 32:3

And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom. {country: Heb. field}

Malachi 1:3

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

Ezekiel 35:2-7

Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

Genesis 14:6

And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which {is} by the wilderness. {Elparan: or, The plain of Paran}

1 Chronicles 4:42

And {some} of them, {even} of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

Deuteronomy 2:5

Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau {for} a possession. {no...: Heb. even to the treading of the sole of the foot}

Joshua 24:4

And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

2 Chronicles 20:10

And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;