THEOSISPhilaret of Moscow (Drosdow)
Esau settled in the region of Mount Seir, which relates to the removal of the previous residents as noted in Deuteronomy 2:12. He starts to embrace a life sustained by warfare as indicated in Genesis 27:40.
Genesis 36:8Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: he is Edom.
וַיֵּ֤שֶׁב עֵשָׂו֙ בְּהַ֣ר שֵׂעִ֔יר עֵשָׂ֖ו ה֥וּא אֱדֽוֹם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 32:3And he sent messengers before him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom:
- Mal 1:3But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a wilderness, and given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert.
- Ezek 35:2Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy concerning it, and say to it:
- Ezek 35:7And I will make mount Seir waste and desolate: and I will take away from it him that goeth and him that returneth.
- 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.
- 2 Chr 20:23For the children of Ammon, and of Moab, rose up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of them, they turned also against one another, and destroyed one another.
- 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.
- 1 Chr 4:42Some also of the children of Simeon, five hundred men, went into mount Seir, having for their captains Phaltias and Naaria and Raphaia and Oziel the sons of Jesi: