Genesis 27:40

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.

Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.”

Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants.

then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

David earned a reputation when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand men of the Syrians in the Valley of Salt.

So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched for seven days along a circuitous route. There was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.

For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;

that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name,” says Yahweh who does this.

When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;

Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel,

To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Libnah with its pasture lands,

He put garrisons in Edom. Throughout all Edom, he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.

Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

Amaziah took courage, and led his people out, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand of the children of Seir.

But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, became an archer.

They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”

Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: “Your brother Israel says: You know all the travail that has happened to us;

I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!

You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?” ’

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

Another came out: a red horse. To him who sat on it was given power to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. There was given to him a great sword.

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.

The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers.”

“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’ ”

Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.

He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.

Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.

For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom

There was no king in Edom. A deputy ruled.

In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.

You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”

He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his fathers.

For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my sandal on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia.”

Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.

For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.

Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’ ”

As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;

it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”

“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.