Shadowland: Beginnings

Shadowland: Beginnings: Week 41

Genesis 36 Esau's Extended Family

Much of this is repeated in 1 Chronicles 1:35-54

36:1 Ishmael and Esau put their "generations" statement at the beginning of the document, instead of the end, which is the Egyptian convention.
36:3 Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebahoth. This seems to conflict with 26:34 which says Esau took Judith daughter of Beeri and Bashemath daughter of Elon. Also 28:9 says Esau took Mahalath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebahoth. This could mean that Esau married six wives, including two pairs of sisters, and two of his wives had the same name. It could also mean he had four wives, by four fathers in law, and two of the wives had alternate names. The Jewish commentators favor a 3 wife theory - making Judith and Oholibamah the same person, and explaining the two different fathers and two different tribes by making Judith the offspring of her Hivite mother and grandfather, with an adopted Horite father and new name.
36:6 Esau had already conquered Seir and was already living there when Jacob returned to Caanan. He now moves everything there.
36:9 The Second Generation is born in Seir.
36:11 Teman Obadiah 1:9 Job 2:11
36:12 Amalek's descendents fight against Israel in Exodus 17:8-16. Baalam Prophesies their doom in Numbers 24:20. Saul's mission to annihilate the Amalekites is in 1 Samuel 15.
36:15 Kenaz - Numbers 24:21-22 prophesies the future of the Kenites.
36:20 Now the geneaology of Esau's in-laws, which begins before Esau. Deuteronomy 2:22 says God "Destroyed the Horites from before the children of Esau."
36:28 Uz Job 1:1 according to Jewish tradition. This would imply Job lived double a normal lifespan for the time, otherwise his lifespan would place him as a contemporary of Reu.
36:31 Edom seems to have had kings (מְּלָכִ֔ים), and dukes/chiefs (אַלּוּפֵ֧י) under the kings, or the chiefs were earlier.
36:33 Esau's grandson is the second king listed.
36:40,41 The chiefs of Esau's line. Are Timnah and Aholibamah women?
37:2 "These are the generations of Jacob" the end of Jacob's account. Joseph's account begins with the next sentence.

Numbers 20:14-29	Edom denies passage to Israel
Numbers 24:15-25	Baalam prophesies about Edomites
2 Chronicles 25	The descendents of Esau fall into Caananite
Jeremiah 49:7-22	Judgement on Edom
Obadiah 1	Judgement on Edom
Malachi 1:1-5	Extinction for Edom
Isaiah 63	Jesus kills the enemies of the Jews in Bozrah/Petra

The final judgement on Edom is for participating in the Babylonian captivity. "Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem’s fall, how they said, “Tear ["Raze it" NASB] it down! Tear it down! Down to its foundations!”" (Psalm 137:7)