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Mount Seir
30.1843°N, 35.3166°E · Photo: David Roberts (CC0)
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region around Jebel esh Shera
In Scripture (34 references)
Genesis
Genesis 14:6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness. Genesis 32:3 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom. Genesis 33:14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of... Genesis 33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. Genesis 36:8 Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom. Genesis 36:9 This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Sei... Genesis 36:30 chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according ...
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 1:2 It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. Deuteronomy 1:44 The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and be... Deuteronomy 2:1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke ... Deuteronomy 2:4 Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your brothers, the children of Es... Deuteronomy 2:5 Don’t contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole ... Deuteronomy 2:8 So we passed by from our brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arab... Deuteronomy 2:12 The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed ... Deuteronomy 2:22 as he did for the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them... Deuteronomy 2:29 as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I pass... Deuteronomy 33:2 He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came fro...
Joshua
Joshua 11:17 from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon... Joshua 12:7 These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan west... Joshua 24:4 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children...
2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 20:10 Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade whe... 2 Chronicles 20:22 When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and... 2 Chronicles 20:23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill an... 2 Chronicles 25:11 Amaziah took courage, and led his people out, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousan... 2 Chronicles 25:14 Now after Amaziah had come from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the children o...
Ezekiel
Ezekiel 25:8 “ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because Moab and Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nat... Ezekiel 35:2 “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, Ezekiel 35:3 and tell it, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my... Ezekiel 35:7 Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation. I will cut off from it him who passes ... Ezekiel 35:15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to...
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