089 Scripture Information Respecting Edo

ITS NAMES.

EDOM’S PAST RELATION TO ISRAEL.

Edom

Isaiah 63:1

Israel refused a passage through Edom

Idumea

Isaiah 34:6

Dumah

Isaiah 21:11

Saul and David warred against them

Mount Seir

Ezekiel 35:2

Rebelled against the authority of Solomon

Mount of Esau

Obadiah 1:21

Leagued with others against Jehoshaphat

ITS CITIES.

Bozrah

Amos 1:12

Threw off the yoke of Joram, King of Judah

Teman

Ezekiel 25:13

Ezion-Geber

1 Kings 9:26

Amaziah’s destruction of the Edomites

Dedan

Jeremiah 49:8

Petra

Isaiah 16:1 (see margin)

Rebelled against Ahaz

ITS PEOPLE

Actively helped the Babylonians in

the Jerusalem attack

Were Israel’s brethren

Numbers 20:14

Were cruel, proud, mighty, wise

Jeremiah 49:1-39

EDOM’S FUTURE.

Were hated of Jehovah

Malachi 1:3

Slaughter of the Gentiles on her mountains

Were haters of Israel

Obadiah 1:10

Her wise and mighty to be utterly destroyed.

WERE GOVERNED

By Dukes or Chiefs, then by Kings

Judah the instrument of Jehovah’s vengeance

then by Deputy

Full destruction of her people

THE COUNTRY.

The country to belong to Israel

Rocky and mountainous

Jeremiah 49:1-39

Judgment and deliverance on the Mount

Exceedingly fertile

Genesis 27:39

Strongly fortified

Psalms 60:9

(See the prophets Obadiah, Isaiah,

Contiguous to Judea

Numbers 20:1-29

and Ezekiel.)