Genesis 25 (WK) - Bible Truth Library

Gen. 27:29,40• ²⁹Let peoples serve thee and races bow down to thee. Be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee. Cursed [be] every one that curseth thee, and blessed every one that blesseth thee.
⁴⁰and by thy sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt rove about, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck. (Gen. 27:29,40)

2 Sam. 8:14• ¹⁴{i}And he put garrisons in Edom: throughout Edom did he put garrisons; and all they of Edom became servants to David. And Jehovah preserved David whithersoever he went.{/i} (2 Sam. 8:14)

1 Kings 22:47• ⁴⁷{i}And there was no king in Edom: a deputy reigned.{/i} (1 Kings 22:47)

1 Chron. 18:13• ¹³{i}And he put garrisons in Edom; and all they of Edom became servants to David. And Jehovah preserved David whithersoever he went{/i}. (1 Chron. 18:13)

2 Chron. 25:11‑12• ¹¹{i}But Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.{/i}
¹²{i}And the children of Judah took ten thousand captive, alive, and brought them to the top of the cliff, and cast them down from the top of the cliff, so that they all were broken in pieces.{/i} (2 Chron. 25:11‑12)

Psa. 60:8‑9• ⁸Moab [is] my washpot;{HR}On Edom will I cast my shoe;{HR}On account of me, Philistia, shout aloud.
⁹Who will bring me [to] the city of defence?{HR}Who hath led me up to Edom? (Psa. 60:8‑9)

Psa. 83:5‑15• ⁵For they have heartily consulted together;{HR}Against thee do they make a covenant:
⁶The tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites,{HR}Moab and the Hagarenes;
⁷Gebal and Ammon and Amalek;{HR}Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
⁸Asshur also is joined with them;{HR}They are an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah.
⁹Do to them as [to] Midian, as [to] Sisera,{HR}As [to] Jabin, at the river Kishon.
¹⁰They were destroyed at Endor;{HR}They became dung for the ground.
¹¹Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb;{HR}Yea, all their princes as Zebah and as Zalmunna;
¹²Who said, Let us take to our inheritance the habitations of God.
¹³O my God, make them as the whirling thing,{HR}As stubble before the wind.
¹⁴As fire will burn a forest,{HR}And as a flame will set mountains on fire,
¹⁵So pursue them with thy tempest{HR}And with thy whirlwind trouble them. (Psa. 83:5‑15)

Isa. 34:1‑17• ¹Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and the fullness thereof; the world, and all that cometh forth of it.
²For the indignation of Jehovah [is] upon all the nations, and fury against all their armies; he hath devoted them to destruction, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
³Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up from their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
⁴And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall away, as a leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as the withered [fruit] from the fig-tree.
⁵For my sword shall be bathed in the heavens; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, to judgment.
⁶The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
⁷And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
⁸For [it is] the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
⁹And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
¹⁰It shall not be quenched night and day; the smoke thereof shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
¹¹But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein. And he shall stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
¹²They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none [shall be] there; and all her princes shall be nothing.
¹³And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
¹⁴And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.
¹⁵There shall the arrow snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.
¹⁶Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah and read: not one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his spirit, it hath gathered them.
¹⁷And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it forever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. (Isa. 34:1‑17)

Isa. 63:1‑6• ¹Who [is] this that cometh from Edom, with deep-red garments from Bozrah, this [that is] glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
²Wherefore [art thou] red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-vat?
³I have trodden the wine-press alone: and of the peoples not a man was with me; and I have trodden them in mine anger, and trampled them in my fury; and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment.
⁴For the day of vengeance [is] in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
⁵And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: and mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
⁶And I have trodden down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my fury, and I have brought down their strength to the earth. (Isa. 63:1‑6)

Jer. 49:7‑22• ⁷Concerning Edom, thus saith Jehovah of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
⁸Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.
⁹If grape-gatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
¹⁰But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
¹¹Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
¹²For thus saith Jehovah; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.
¹³For I have sworn by myself, saith Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
¹⁴I have heard a rumour from Jehovah, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
¹⁵For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.
¹⁶Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith Jehovah.
¹⁷Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
¹⁸As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the neighbour cities thereof, saith Jehovah, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
¹⁹Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
²⁰therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.
²¹The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red Sea.
²²Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. (Jer. 49:7‑22)

Ezek. 25:12‑14• ¹²Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
¹³therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
¹⁴And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 25:12‑14)

Ezek. 35:1‑15• ¹And the word of Jehovah came unto me saying,
²Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it, and say unto it,
³Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Behold, Ο mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
⁴I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
⁵Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end;
⁶therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
⁷Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
⁸And I will fill his mountain with his slain men: in thy hills and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
⁹I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
¹⁰Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Jehovah was there:
¹¹therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
¹²And thou shalt know that I am Jehovah, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
¹³Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
¹⁴Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
¹⁵As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, Ο mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Jehovah. (Ezek. 35:1‑15)

Amos 1:11‑12• ¹¹Thus saith Jehovah; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever:
¹²but I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah. (Amos 1:11‑12)

Obad. 1‑16• ¹{i}The vision of Obadiah.{/i}
²Behold, I have made them small among the heathen; thou art greatly despised.
³The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, {i}whose{/i} habitation is high; {i}—he that{/i} saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
⁴Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith Jehovah.
⁵If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?
⁶How are the things of Esau searched out! How are his hidden things sought up!
⁷All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border; the men of this place have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee. {i}They that eat{/i} thy bread have laid a wound under thee; there is no understanding in him.
⁸Shall I not in that day, saith Jehovah, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
⁹And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.
¹⁰For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever.
¹¹In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem even thou wast one of them.
¹²But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger, neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
¹³Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity.
¹⁴Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.
¹⁵For the day of Jehovah is near on all the heathen. As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee. Thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
¹⁶For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. (Obad. 1‑16)

Mal. 1:2‑5• ²I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob,
³And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
⁴Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation forever.
⁵And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, Jehovah will be magnified from the border of Israel. (Mal. 1:2‑5)

Rom. 9:10‑13• ¹⁰And not only [so], but also Rebecca having conceived by one, Isaac our father,
¹¹for [the children] being not yet born, nor having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might remain, not of works but of him that calleth,
¹²it was said to her, “The greater shall serve the lesser,”
¹³according as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” (Rom. 9:10‑13)

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