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Mount Esau

Mount Esau, the mountainous region of Edom, against which the prophet Obadiah declared God's judgment for their hostility toward Israel.
PlaceOld Testament1 book11 verses

Summary

A location first mentioned at Obadiah 1:8; only referred to as Esau Mount (עֵשָׂו).

Location

Certainty
Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)
Coordinates
30.184° N, 35.317° E
Mount Esau
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Alternative names

Mentions

Includes 7 verses that refer to Mount Esau without naming it.

  1. 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?
  2. 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.
  3. Obadiah 1:10Referred to, not named
    Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
  4. Obadiah 1:11Referred to, not named
    On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.
  5. Obadiah 1:12Referred to, not named
    But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.
  6. Obadiah 1:13Referred to, not named
    You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.
  7. Obadiah 1:14Referred to, not named
    Nor should you stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives, nor deliver up their survivors in the day of their distress.
  8. Obadiah 1:15Referred to, not named
    For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.
  9. Obadiah 1:16Referred to, not named
    For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.
  10. 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.
  11. Obadiah 1:21
    The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.