Esau and the Edomites

The Family of Esau


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2. The Family of Esau

Esau married Adah or Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the Hivite. Esau also married Mahalath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth (Genesis 28:1-9). Esau therefore merged with Canaanite (Hittitie and Hivite) and Arab stock.
Esau was known also as Edom. They dwelt at first in Mount Seir where previously had been the Horite.

Esau had five sons: Eliphaz, Reuel,  Jeush, Jalam and Korah (Genesis 36:4-5).
Eliphaz and his sons Teman and Amalek were especially important.

[Genesis 36:1] NOW THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF ESAU, WHO IS EDOM.                     
 
[Genesis 36:2] ESAU TOOK HIS WIVES OF THE DAUGHTERS OF CANAAN; ADAH THE DAUGHTER OF ELON THE HITTITE, AND AHOLIBAMAH THE DAUGHTER OF ANAH THE DAUGHTER OF ZIBEON THE HIVITE;   
Craig White (The Great German Nation: Origins and Destiny  p.124 ff) showed links between Prussia-Germany and the Hittites.   

In Genesis  26:34-35 the women are given different names.
           
 Genesis 26:34] AND ESAU WAS FORTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE TOOK TO WIFE JUDITH THE DAUGHTER OF BEERI THE HITTITE, AND BASHEMATH THE DAUGHTER OF ELON THE HITTITE:
Esau intermarried with Hittites and with others. The Hittites had pockets in the land of Israel, in Syria, and in present-day Turkey.  Sayce believed there were two kinds of Hittite, one a "Nordic" type and the other "Mongolian".  Many researchers see a resemblance in physical features between the Hittites as they were depicted in Ancient Times and some of the present-day Armenians.

[Genesis 26:35] WHICH WERE A GRIEF OF MIND UNTO ISAAC AND TO REBEKAH.
He took unsuitable women that were not of his own kind and this caused grief. Sometimes this can be done and sometimes not. The bottom line depends on the consequences.

 ADAH THE DAUGHTER OF ELON THE HITTITE is considered the same as BASHEMATH THE DAUGHTER OF ELON THE HITTITE.
AHOLIBAMAH THE DAUGHTER OF ANAH THE DAUGHTER OF ZIBEON THE HIVITE is considered the same as JUDITH THE DAUGHTER OF BEERI THE HITTITE.
The fathers of these women were apparently important local princes and well-known. The Hittites and
Hivites were a related people and we find the nations of Canaan having their specific Canaanite Tribal allocation switched around elsewhere in Scripture. The Hivities could also be referred to as Horites. The Horites were considered an Indo-European speaking people whose center was in Anatolia (present-day Turkey) as well as having offshoots to the east and to the south. Zibeon the Hivi may well have been made ruler over a Hittite group and then received the name Beeri. In Europe kings and queens at the time of their coronation upon occasion took on new names. The Pope when receiving his office chooses a name for himself by which henceforth he will be referred to.

[Genesis 36:3] AND BASHEMATH ISHMAEL'S DAUGHTER, SISTER OF NEBAJOTH.
In Genesis 28:9 she is given the name MAHALATH.
Different explanations are given for these changes of name. This is not an infrequent occurrence in Scripture.
 
NEBAJOTH son of Ishmael is considered the ancestor of the Nabatean Arabs who at one stage established an impressive desert-based civilization to the south of Judah.

The marriage of Esau to a daughter of Ishmael was said to symbolize the attempted union of Edom and Ishmael in the Latter Days envisaged in the Book of Daniel.                    
 See:
"
Eurabia" in The Book of DANIEL?

[Genesis 36:4] AND ADAH BARE TO ESAU ELIPHAZ; AND BASHEMATH BARE REUEL;
The name "Eliphaz" means God is strong.  Eliphaz by some of the Sages is identified with Eliphaz the Temenite the companion of Job (Job 2:11). Eliphaz according to tradition was at first an evil person but repented and became saintly. He was considered one of the seven prophets that emerged from non-Israelite Gentile populations (Baba Kama 15;b). Eliphaz represents a portion of Edom that will repent in the End Times.
The name
REUEL  means "Friend of God".              
 
[Genesis 36:5] AND AHOLIBAMAH BARE JEUSH, AND JAALAM, AND KORAH: THESE ARE THE SONS OF ESAU, WHICH WERE BORN UNTO HIM IN THE LAND OF CANAAN.                     
KORAH was also the name of a son of Levi whose family became an important clan of Levites in the Israelite Nation. This should warn us about reading to much into similarity or identity of names.
 
[Genesis 36:6] AND ESAU TOOK HIS WIVES, AND HIS SONS, AND HIS DAUGHTERS, AND ALL THE PERSONS OF HIS HOUSE, AND HIS CATTLE, AND ALL HIS BEASTS, AND ALL HIS SUBSTANCE, WHICH HE HAD GOT IN THE LAND OF CANAAN; AND WENT INTO THE COUNTRY FROM THE FACE OF HIS BROTHER JACOB.                     
 
[Genesis 36:7] FOR THEIR RICHES WERE MORE THAN THAT THEY MIGHT DWELL TOGETHER; AND THE LAND WHEREIN THEY WERE STRANGERS COULD NOT BEAR THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR CATTLE.                     
 
[Genesis 36:8] THUS DWELT ESAU IN MOUNT SEIR: ESAU IS EDOM.                     
 
[Genesis 36:9] AND THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF ESAU THE FATHER OF THE EDOMITES IN MOUNT SEIR:                     
 
[Genesis 36:10] THESE ARE THE NAMES OF ESAU'S SONS; ELIPHAZ THE SON OF ADAH THE WIFE OF ESAU, REUEL THE SON OF BASHEMATH THE WIFE OF ESAU.                     
 
[Genesis 36:11] AND THE SONS OF ELIPHAZ WERE TEMAN, OMAR, ZEPHO, AND GATAM, AND KENAZ.
Teman is a name that occurs frequently in Ancient History.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/
view.jsp?artid=119&letter=T

"Teman" is used as a synonym for Edom itself (Amos i. 12; Obad. 9; comp. Jer. xlix. 20, 22; Hab. iii. 3). The Temanites were famed for their wisdom (Jer. xlix. 7; Baruch iii. 22); Eliphaz, the oldest and wisest of the friends of Job, is described as a member of this tribe (Job ii. 11 et passim).

Teman is referred to in Obad. 9 as a part of the mount of Esau, while Amos i. 12 mentions it in connection with the Edomitic "palaces of Bozrah"; Ezek. xxv. 13 speaks of it in contrast to the southern boundary Dedan. The "Onomasticon" of Eusebius (260, 155) mentions a region called Thaiman, in Gebalene (the Gebal of Ps. lxxxiii. 8 [A. V. 7]), and thus in the district of Petra, noting also an East Teman, a town with a Roman garrison fifteen (according to Jerome, five) miles from Petra.E. C. I. Re.

 
  http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.
jsp?artid=119&letter=T#ixzz0Yi0GRV4i

In Greek Mythology Temenus (descended from Heracles) gave rise to the:
## the Temenidae, being expelled from Argos, are said to have founded the kingdom of Macedonia, whence the kings of Macedonia called themselves Temenidae. (Herod. viii. 138; Thuc. ii. 99.)
According to tradition the descendants of Edom went to Italy, settled in the south and then founded Rome.

In Greek Mythology we have:
## Idomeneus [ef. Edom]. He went to Italy, where he settled in Calabria, and built a temple to Athena. From thence he is said to have again migrated to Colophon, on the coast of Asia, to have settled near the temple of the Clarian Apollo, and to have been buried on Mount Cercaphus. (Serv. ad Aen. iii. 121, 401, 531, xi. 264 ; Strab. x. p. 479; Schol. ad Hom. Od. xiii. 259.)
KENAZ is also the name of a Canaanite People known from the time of Abraham (Genesis 15:19) and later of an Israelite clan (Numbers 32:12) that eventually in the south of Judah.
Certain secular scholars along with racist Jew-haters claim that these were all one people and that Judah absorbed them into the Jewish
population. It does happen in Scripture that identity or close similarity of name presage future unification and assimilation. This does not seem to be the case here. The question will be discussed in our article on Esau and Judah.


[Genesis 36:12] AND TIMNA WAS CONCUBINE TO ELIPHAZ ESAU'S SON; AND SHE BARE TO ELIPHAZ AMALEK: THESE WERE THE SONS OF ADAH ESAU'S WIFE.  
Amalek is considered the arch-enemy of Judah and Israel  (Exodus 17:9-16  Deuteronomy 25:17-19).

In (Arabic:
amliq) is the singular of giant "suggesting the sons of this tribe were known for being unusually tall."
Hitler considered himself a descendants of giants (even though he himself was only 5 feet 8 inches which is average) and many consider Hitler to have been a descendants of
Amalek
Some commentators (e.g.
Iben Ezra) say that two different peoples were named Amalek and only one of them is the one that Israel is commanded to treat as an enemy.
Agag (Num. 24:7; 1 Sam. 15:8) was a traditional name or title for the kings of Amelak. Haman who in the Book of Esther attempts to exterminate the Jews was a descendant of Agag.
 
[Genesis 36:13] AND THESE ARE THE SONS OF REUEL; NAHATH, AND ZERAH, SHAMMAH, AND    MIZZAH: THESE WERE THE SONS OF BASHEMATH ESAU'S WIFE.                     
 
[Genesis 36:14] AND THESE WERE THE SONS OF AHOLIBAMAH, THE DAUGHTER OF ANAH THE DAUGHTER OF ZIBEON, ESAU'S WIFE: AND SHE BARE TO ESAU JEUSH, AND JAALAM, AND KORAH.                     
 
[Genesis 36:15] THESE WERE DUKES OF THE SONS OF ESAU: THE SONS OF ELIPHAZ THE FIRSTBORN SON OF ESAU; DUKE TEMAN, DUKE OMAR, DUKE ZEPHO, DUKE KENAZ,
Duke in Hebrew is Aluph meaning general or commander.
"
Aluph" is from the root "aleph" connoting train, teach, assist. The English word "help" may come from this root.
Traditionally part of Edom would have rulers who were not really hereditary. Edom is identified with Rome and Germany and other places in Europe. Rome was ruled by Caesars who are referred to in denigration in the Talmud because they were homosexual or bi-sexual and because they were not hereditary. It is interesting the Mussolini was called Il Duce or The Duke.  Mussolini the fascist leader of Italy in the Second World War is not taken seriously by historians these days. This is deceptive. Mussolini set the tone. He was the model for all the others. Hitler and all his friends imitated Mussolini who in the beginning made quite an impression.
It is also interesting that Italy, Germany, and Japan, together with Hungary, Austria, and Rumania did get together and try to take over the world.
"Duke" derives from the Latin "Dux" meaning leader. This is a good equivalent to "
Aluph".
The leadership or "
frueher" principle was very important in fascist and Germanic-Nazi thinking and quite effective. It must have reflected some deep aspect of the peoples it was applied to and utilized by.

The sages said that these "Dukes" (
aluphim) were the local rulers of different principalities who ruled during their lifetime but did not necessarily pass their rulership onto the children.
They were also associated with homosexual tendencies.


[Genesis 36:16] DUKE KORAH, DUKE GATAM, AND DUKE AMALEK: THESE ARE THE DUKES THAT CAME OF ELIPHAZ IN THE LAND OF EDOM; THESE WERE THE SONS OF ADAH.                     
 
[Genesis 36:17] AND THESE ARE THE SONS OF REUEL ESAU'S SON; DUKE NAHATH, DUKE ZERAH, DUKE SHAMMAH, DUKE MIZZAH: THESE ARE THE DUKES THAT CAME OF REUEL IN THE LAND OF EDOM; THESE ARE THE SONS OF BASHEMATH ESAU'S WIFE.                     
 
[Genesis 36:18] AND THESE ARE THE SONS OF AHOLIBAMAH ESAU'S WIFE; DUKE JEUSH, DUKE  JAALAM, DUKE KORAH: THESE WERE THE DUKES THAT CAME OF AHOLIBAMAH THE DAUGHTER OF ANAH, ESAU'S WIFE.                     
 
[Genesis 36:19] THESE ARE THE SONS OF ESAU, WHO IS EDOM, AND THESE ARE THEIR DUKES.
Descendants of Esau became some of the greatest soldiers and conquerors who ever lived. Others also hated them but their over-all effect was to civilize and elevate humankind.

[Genesis 36:20] THESE ARE THE SONS OF SEIR THE HORITE, WHO INHABITED THE LAND; LOTAN, AND SHOBAL, AND ZIBEON, AND ANAH,
The Horites of Seir intermingled with the Edomites and became one nation.
Horites are otherwise known as Hurrians. They are recorded all over the Ancient Middle East. They also went to Europe. Perhaps where the Hurrians went so did Edom? Why else would the Torah go to such length to link them with Edom and give their genealogies?

Herman Howe, 1914-1997,"A Compendiuum of World History", 1962,section 1 p.198 ff) identified Shobal with Hispal, son of Hercules, in Spanish tradition. Hispal built the city Hispalis, later known as Sepila, now Seville. When the existence of Japan first became known to the West there were Spanish authors who fancied an ancient kinship between the Japanese and themselves. This has lead to some scholars (e.g. Craig White) believing in both an eastern as well as a western Tarshish though in principal Tarshish was located on the Atlantic Coast of the Iberian Peninsula.

[Genesis 36:21] AND DISHON, AND EZER, AND DISHAN: THESE ARE THE DUKES OF THE HORITES, THE CHILDREN OF SEIR IN THE LAND OF EDOM.

Is Seir Japan?
See:
The Japanese are not Hebrews

It appears that Edom intermarried with several different peoples and that is why his descendants may be of all different types?  
There are some Identity people who claim the Jews are Edomites
but they themselves probably are. They fit the profile better. They should be proud of it however.
Being an
Edomite should not be considered a negative quality. 

[Genesis 36:22] AND THE CHILDREN OF LOTAN WERE HORI AND HEMAM; AND LOTAN'S SISTER WAS TIMNA.

[Genesis 36:23] AND THE CHILDREN OF SHOBAL WERE THESE; ALVAN, AND MANAHATH, AND EBAL, SHEPHO, AND ONAM.                     
 
[Genesis 36:24] AND THESE ARE THE CHILDREN OF ZIBEON; BOTH AJAH, AND ANAH: THIS WAS THAT ANAH THAT FOUND THE MULES IN THE WILDERNESS, AS HE FED THE ASSES OF ZIBEON HIS FATHER.  

Anah according to the simple import of the above verse merely found the mules in the wilderness. Mules are a cross between horses and donkeys. The Sages however suggested that something of greater significance was behind this and that Anah had been instrumental in bringing the birth of the mules about and in general was associated with the cross breeding of different kinds.

Attempts at breeding, cross-breeding, and superior breeding (eugenics etc) are indeed sometimes to be associated with Edomite-like types.
Despite protestations of concern for unfortunate women some aspects of abortion policy may have a eugenic-orientated agenda.

The Nazis believed in a super race and introduced human stock from all over Europe to further its production. SS stud farms using SS males and mainly Norwegian adolescent maidens who had been duped attempted to breed a superior type of human being but without much success.
In fact just the opposite. The standard of offspring was said to ahve been problematic!

Hitler was prepared to cull four out of every five Germans.

            Euthanasia or the elimination of what were considered worthless negative human beings was taken seriously.
400,000 Germans were sterilized mostly in the period 1939-1939.
## In a 1929 speech, Himself had toyed with the possibility of culling four out of five German children.## .
Life and Death in the Third Reich" by Peter Fritsche, USA, 2008 p.114.

See:
http://www.britam.org/BHR/BHR20.html#Germany

[Genesis 36:25] AND THE CHILDREN OF ANAH WERE THESE; DISHON, AND AHOLIBAMAH THE DAUGHTER OF ANAH.                     
 
[Genesis 36:26] AND THESE ARE THE CHILDREN OF DISHON; HEMDAN, AND ESHBAN, AND ITHRAN, AND CHERAN.                     
 
[Genesis 36:27] THE CHILDREN OF EZER ARE THESE; BILHAN, AND ZAAVAN, AND AKAN.                     
 
[Genesis 36:28] THE CHILDREN OF DISHAN ARE THESE; UZ, AND ARAN.
The Land of Uz is identified with Armenia. An area known as Arran is also to be found nearby in the Caucasus region.                    
 
[Genesis 36:29] THESE ARE THE DUKES THAT CAME OF THE HORITES; DUKE LOTAN, DUKE SHOBAL, DUKE ZIBEON, DUKE ANAH,                     
 
[Genesis 36:30] DUKE DISHON, DUKE EZER, DUKE DISHAN: THESE ARE THE DUKES THAT CAME OF HORI, AMONG THEIR DUKES IN THE LAND OF SEIR.                     
 
[Genesis 36:31] AND THESE ARE THE KINGS THAT REIGNED IN THE LAND OF EDOM, BEFORE THERE REIGNED ANY KING OVER THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.                     
 
[Genesis 36:32] AND BELA THE SON OF BEOR REIGNED IN EDOM: AND THE NAME OF HIS CITY WAS DINHABAH.  
DINHABAH: The royal city of Bela, son of Beor; king of Edom (Genesis 36:32 1 Chronicles 1:43)
The name may mean robbers den.
DINHABAH may have been a name later given to a place in Africa possibly Libya.
See:
Book of
Jasher, Chapter 57
 

Herman Howe identified Bela with Belus the founder in Greek Mythology of the Dynasty of Sparta.


[Genesis 36:33] AND BELA DIED, AND JOBAB THE SON OF ZERAH OF BOZRAH REIGNED IN HIS STEAD.                     
 
[Genesis 36:34] AND JOBAB DIED, AND HUSHAM OF THE LAND OF TEMANI REIGNED IN HIS STEAD.
TEMANI was in northern Syria and northern Turkey. From this area people migrated to Central Europe. Alexander the Great claimed descent from the Temenu. I would think that being descended from somebody like Alexander the Great would be quite respectable. He was a great soldier, brave, ingenious and a truly enlightened ruler of noble qualities who contributed much to world history.

[Genesis 36:35] AND HUSHAM DIED, AND HADAD THE SON OF BEDAD, WHO SMOTE MIDIAN IN  THE FIELD OF MOAB, REIGNED IN HIS STEAD: AND THE NAME OF HIS CITY WAS AVITH.                     
 
[Genesis 36:36] AND HADAD DIED, AND SAMLAH OF MASREKAH REIGNED IN HIS STEAD.                     
 
[Genesis 36:37] AND SAMLAH DIED, AND SAUL OF REHOBOTH BY THE RIVER REIGNED IN HIS STEAD.
"REHOBOTH BY THE RIVER" was on the Euphrates in the North. Edom was all over the place with entities and ruling dynasties established in many nations.
cf. the following source:

The Land of Edom
The
Hyksos, Kings of Egypt and the land of Edom
CHAPTER V
The
Edomite/Hyksos "Empire"
http://nabataea.net/edomch5.html
# The Reign of Saul
"And
Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead." Gen. 36:37.

# It is startling indeed to read that King Saul's capital city was "Rehoboth by the river." This city is very far from Edom proper. It lay roughly 400 miles north easterly, near the banks of the great River Euphrates and for years as been identified with
Rahabah, situated twenty-eight miles below the juncture of the Khabour River River with the Euphrates. The Euphrates is often called in Scripture just "the river" as reference through a concordance will amply prove.

# As already said, it is truly startling to learn that a king of Edom should establish his capital 400 miles away from his own country! Clearly the
Edomite kingdom had now spread out enormously north- eastwards to the Euphrates River, (perhaps doing so under Samlah's reign, brining Edom close to Assyria. (19) Possibly the business of further conquests in this direction, or beyond the river, made it advisable for King Saul (called Shaul in I. Chronicles 1:48,) to set up the seat of his government so far from Edom proper.

[Genesis 36:38] AND SAUL DIED, AND BAALHANAN THE SON OF ACHBOR REIGNED IN HIS STEAD.                     
 
[Genesis 36:39] AND BAALHANAN THE SON OF ACHBOR DIED, AND HADAR REIGNED IN HIS STEAD: AND THE NAME OF HIS CITY WAS PAU; AND HIS WIFE'S NAME WAS MEHETABEL, THE DAUGHTER OF MATRED, THE DAUGHTER OF MEZAHAB.                     
 
[Genesis 36:40] AND THESE ARE THE NAMES OF THE DUKES THAT CAME OF ESAU, ACCORDING TO THEIR FAMILIES, AFTER THEIR PLACES, BY THEIR NAMES; DUKE TIMNAH, DUKE ALVAH, DUKE JETHETH,                     
 
[Genesis 36:41] DUKE AHOLIBAMAH, DUKE ELAH, DUKE PINON,                     
 
[Genesis 36:42] DUKE KENAZ, DUKE TEMAN, DUKE MIBZAR,                     
 
[Genesis 36:43] DUKE MAGDIEL, DUKE IRAM: THESE BE THE DUKES OF EDOM, ACCORDING TO THEIR  HABITATIONS IN THE LAND OF THEIR POSSESSION: HE IS ESAU THE FATHER OF THE EDOMITES.
DUKE MAGDIEL was the real founder of Rome according to tradition.


See also:
Edom
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