Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir , and prophesy against it,
And the Horites in their mount Seir , unto El–paran, which is by the wilderness.
And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir :
(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh –barnea.)
Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir , utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir , every one helped to destroy another.
Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir , even unto Baal –gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon : and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.
And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir , even unto Hormah .
And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir , and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon , on the north side, and went down to Beth–shemesh, and passed on to Timnah :
Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the Lord spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.
And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon , Moab , and mount Seir , which were come against Judah ; and they were smitten.
Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon , five hundred men, went to mount Seir , having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah , and Uzziel , the sons of Ishi.
And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O mount Seir , I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir , whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt , but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;
And he said, The Lord came from Sinai , and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran , and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel , because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir , and all Edom , even all of it: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baal –gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir ; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
