Esau (Edom)

All 151 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Genesis

• Genesis 25:25

  The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.

• Genesis 25:26

  After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

• Genesis 25:27

  When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.

• Genesis 25:28

  Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

• Genesis 25:29

  One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.

• Genesis 25:30

  He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

• Genesis 25:32

  “Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”

• Genesis 25:34

  Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

• Genesis 26:34

  When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

• Genesis 27:1

  When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.

• Genesis 27:5

  Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,

• Genesis 27:6

  Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,

• Genesis 27:11

  Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.

• Genesis 27:15

  And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.

• Genesis 27:19

  Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”

• Genesis 27:21

  Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”

• Genesis 27:22

  So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

• Genesis 27:23

  Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.

• Genesis 27:24

  Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”

• Genesis 27:30

  As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

• Genesis 27:32

  But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.

• Genesis 27:34

  When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”

• Genesis 27:37

  But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”

• Genesis 27:38

  Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.

• Genesis 27:41

  Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

• Genesis 27:42

  When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.

• Genesis 28:5

  So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

• Genesis 28:6

  Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”

• Genesis 28:8

  And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,

• Genesis 28:9

  Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.

• Genesis 32:3

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

• Genesis 32:4

  He instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.

• Genesis 32:6

  When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”

• Genesis 32:8

  He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”

• Genesis 32:11

  Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.

• Genesis 32:13

  Jacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau:

• Genesis 32:17

  He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’

• Genesis 32:18

  then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift, sent to my lord Esau. And behold, Jacob is behind us.’”

• Genesis 32:19

  He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.

• Genesis 33:1

  Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.

• Genesis 33:4

  Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.

• Genesis 33:9

  “I already have plenty, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what belongs to you.”

• Genesis 33:15

  “Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”

• Genesis 33:16

  So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,

• Genesis 35:1

  Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

• Genesis 35:29

  Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

• Genesis 36:1

  This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).

• Genesis 36:2

  Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

• Genesis 36:4

  And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath gave birth to Reuel,

• Genesis 36:5

  and Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 36:6

  Later, Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the people of his household, along with his livestock, all his other animals, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan, and he moved to a land far away from his brother Jacob.

• Genesis 36:8

  So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.

• Genesis 36:9

  This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the area of Mount Seir.

• Genesis 36:10

  These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz son of Esau’s wife Adah, and Reuel son of Esau’s wife Basemath.

• Genesis 36:12

  Additionally, Timna, a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, gave birth to Amalek. These are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.

• Genesis 36:13

  These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.

• Genesis 36:14

  These are the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah (daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon) whom she bore to Esau: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

• Genesis 36:15

  These are the chiefs among the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: Chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,

• Genesis 36:16

  Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. They are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom, and they are the grandsons of Adah.

• Genesis 36:17

  These are the sons of Esau’s son Reuel: Chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the chiefs descended from Reuel in the land of Edom, and they are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.

• Genesis 36:18

  These are the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah: Chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. They are the chiefs descended from Esau’s wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.

• Genesis 36:19

  All these are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and they were their chiefs.

• Genesis 36:21

  Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. They are the chiefs of the Horites, the descendants of Seir in the land of Edom.

• Genesis 36:31

  These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:

• Genesis 36:32

  Bela son of Beor reigned in Edom; the name of his city was Dinhabah.

• Genesis 36:40

  These are the names of Esau’s chiefs, according to their families and regions, by their names: Chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

• Genesis 36:43

  Magdiel, and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. Esau was the father of the Edomites.

Exodus

• Exodus 15:15

  Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,

Numbers

• Numbers 20:14

  From Kadesh, Moses sent messengers to tell the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says: You know all the hardship that has befallen us,

• Numbers 20:18

  But Edom answered, “You may not travel through our land, or we will come out and confront you with the sword.”

• Numbers 20:20

  But Edom insisted, “You may not pass through.” And they came out to confront the Israelites with a large army and a strong hand.

• Numbers 20:21

  So Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through their territory, and Israel turned away from them.

• Numbers 20:23

  And at Mount Hor, near the border of the land of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

• Numbers 21:4

  Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey

• Numbers 24:18

  Edom will become a possession, as will Seir, his enemy; but Israel will perform with valor.

• Numbers 33:37

  They set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the outskirts of the land of Edom.

• Numbers 34:3

  Your southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 2:4

  and command the people: ‘You will pass through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so you must be very careful.

• Deuteronomy 2:5

  Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a footprint, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as his possession.

• Deuteronomy 2:8

  So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber, and traveled along the road of the Wilderness of Moab.

• Deuteronomy 2:12

  The Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land that the LORD gave them as their possession.)

• Deuteronomy 2:22

  just as He had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.

• Deuteronomy 2:29

  just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for us, until we cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving us.”

Joshua

• Joshua 15:1

  Now the allotment for the clans of the tribe of Judah extended to the border of Edom, to the Wilderness of Zin at the extreme southern boundary:

• Joshua 15:21

  These were the southernmost cities of the tribe of Judah in the Negev toward the border of Edom: Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

• Joshua 24:4

  and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

Judges

• Judges 5:4

  O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.

• Judges 11:17

  Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. They also sent messengers to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel stayed in Kadesh.

• Judges 11:18

  Then Israel traveled through the wilderness and bypassed the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, since the Arnon was its border.

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 14:47

  After Saul had assumed the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side—the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he routed them.

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 8:14

  He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 9:26

  King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.

• 1 Kings 11:14

  Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.

• 1 Kings 11:15

  Earlier, when David was in Edom, Joab the commander of the army had gone to bury the dead and had struck down every male in Edom.

• 1 Kings 11:16

  Joab and all Israel had stayed there six months, until he had killed every male in Edom.

• 1 Kings 22:47

  And there was no king in Edom; a deputy served as king.

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 3:8

  Then he asked, “Which way shall we go up?” “By way of the Desert of Edom,” replied Joram.

• 2 Kings 3:9

  So the king of Israel, the king of Judah, and the king of Edom set out, and after they had traveled a roundabout route for seven days, they had no water for their army or for their animals.

• 2 Kings 3:12

  Jehoshaphat affirmed, “The word of the LORD is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

• 2 Kings 3:20

  The next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water suddenly flowed from the direction of Edom and filled the land.

• 2 Kings 3:26

  When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took with him seven hundred swordsmen to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not prevail.

• 2 Kings 8:20

  In the days of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against the hand of Judah and appointed their own king.

• 2 Kings 8:22

  So to this day Edom has been in rebellion against the hand of Judah. Likewise, Libnah rebelled at the same time.

• 2 Kings 14:7

  Amaziah struck down 10,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He took Sela in battle and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this very day.

• 2 Kings 14:10

  You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. Glory in that and stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 1:34

  Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 1:35

  The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

• 1 Chronicles 1:51

  Then Hadad died. Now the chiefs of Edom were Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

• 1 Chronicles 1:54

  Magdiel, and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom.

• 1 Chronicles 18:11

  and King David dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silver and gold he had carried off from all these nations—from Edom and Moab, and from the Ammonites, Philistines, and Amalekites.

• 1 Chronicles 18:13

  He placed garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 8:17

  Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the coast of Edom.

• 2 Chronicles 25:20

  But Amaziah would not listen, for this had come from God in order to deliver them into the hand of Jehoash, because they had sought the gods of Edom.

Psalms

• Psalms 137:7

  Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

Isaiah

• Isaiah 11:14

  They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

• Isaiah 63:1

  Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 9:26

  Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”

• Jeremiah 25:21

  Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;

• Jeremiah 27:3

  Send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

• Jeremiah 40:11

  When all the Jews in Moab, Ammon, Edom, and all the other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, over them,

• Jeremiah 49:7

  Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

• Jeremiah 49:8

  Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.

• Jeremiah 49:10

  But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.

• Jeremiah 49:17

  “Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

• Jeremiah 49:20

  Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.

• Jeremiah 49:22

  Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s mighty men will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

Lamentations

• Lamentations 4:21

  So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.

• Lamentations 4:22

  O Daughter of Zion, your punishment is complete; He will not prolong your exile. But He will punish your iniquity, O Daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 25:12

  This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,

• Ezekiel 25:13

  therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

• Ezekiel 25:14

  I will take My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, and they will deal with Edom according to My anger and wrath. Then they will know My vengeance, declares the Lord GOD.’

• Ezekiel 32:29

  Edom is there, and all her kings and princes, who despite their might are laid among those slain by the sword. They lie down with the uncircumcised, with those who descend to the Pit.

Daniel

• Daniel 11:41

  He will also invade the Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall. But these will be delivered from his hand: Edom, Moab, and the leaders of the Ammonites.

Joel

• Joel 3:19

  Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

Amos

• Amos 1:6

  This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Gaza, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they exiled a whole population, delivering them up to Edom.

• Amos 1:9

  This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they delivered up a whole congregation of exiles to Edom and broke a covenant of brotherhood.

• Amos 1:11

  This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.

• Amos 2:1

  This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.

• Amos 9:12

  that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name,” declares the LORD, who will do this.

Obadiah

• Obadiah 1:6

  But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!

• Obadiah 1:8

  In that day, declares the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men of Edom and the men of understanding in the mountains of Esau?

• Obadiah 1:9

  Then your mighty men, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone in the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.

• Obadiah 1:18

  Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be stubble— Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain from the house of Esau.” For the LORD has spoken.

• Obadiah 1:19

  Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau; those from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.

• Obadiah 1:21

  The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.

Malachi

• Malachi 1:2

  “I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,

• Malachi 1:3

  but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

• Malachi 1:4

  Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.

Romans

• Romans 9:13

  So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Hebrews

• Hebrews 11:20

  By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

• Hebrews 12:16

  See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

Events the dataset lists Esau (Edom) as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

1. c. 1836 BC
   Birth of Jacob and EsauGenesis 25:24–26

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.