THEOSISGenesis 32:3Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And he sent messengers before him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom:
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יַעֲקֹב֙ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר רָאָ֔ם מַחֲנֵ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים זֶ֑ה וַיִּקְרָ֛א שֵֽׁם־הַמָּק֥וֹם הַה֖וּא מֽ͏ַחֲנָֽיִם׃
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- Josh 24:4And gave him Isaac: and to him again I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave to Esau mount Seir for his possession: but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
- Gen 25:30Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom.
- Gen 14:6And the Chorreans in the mountains of Seir, even to the plains of Pharan, which is in the wilderness.
- Gen 33:14May it please my lord to go before his servant: and I will follow softly after him, as I shall see my children to be able, until I come to my lord in Seir.
- Deut 2:5Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For I will not give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread upon, because I have given mount Seir to Esau, for a possession.
- Gen 36:6And Esau took his wives, and his sons and daughters, and every soul of his house, and his substance, and cattle, and all that he was able to acquire in the land of Chanaan: and went into another country, and departed from his brother Jacob.
- Gen 36:9And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, in mount Seir.
- Luke 14:31Or, what king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he be able, with ten thousand, to meet him that, with twenty thousand, cometh against him?