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Selected Verse: Genesis 36:8 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ge 36:8 |
Strong Concordance |
Thus dwelt [03427] Esau [06215] in mount [02022] Seir [08165]: Esau [06215] is Edom [0123]. |
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King James |
Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir--This was divinely assigned as his possession (Jos 24:4; Deu 2:5). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir - Whatever opposition may be made, God's word will take place, and even those that have opposed it will see themselves, some time or other, under a necessity of yielding to it. Esau had struggled for Canaan, but now he retires to mount Seir; for God's counsels shall certainly stand concerning the times before appointed, and the bounds of our habitation. |
5 Meddle [01624] not with them; for I will not give [05414] you of their land [0776], no, not so much as a foot [07272] breadth [04096] [03709]; because I have given [05414] mount [02022] Seir [08165] unto Esau [06215] for a possession [03425].
4 And I gave [05414] unto Isaac [03327] Jacob [03290] and Esau [06215]: and I gave [05414] unto Esau [06215] mount [02022] Seir [08165], to possess [03423] it; but Jacob [03290] and his children [01121] went down [03381] into Egypt [04714].