A Study Guide for the Book of Lamentations by John Teague, ThD - HTML preview

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1)

The name Esau (or rather Edom) suggests that he was the ancestor of the Edomite people.

a)

God gave Esau’s (Edom’s) descendants, the

Edomites their own land.

b)

God gave the Jacob’s (Israel’s) descendants, the Israelites their own land.

2)

The people lived south of the Salt Sea (Deut. 2:8).

a)

They did not expand very far to the east or west, but they did venture into the territory of Israel upon occasion to raid, attack and assault.

b)

Kadesh-barnea, in the Wilderness of Zin, along with the mysterious Mount Hor, where Aaron died, were all “in the [western] edge of the land of Edom”, (Num.20:16; Num.33:37-39; 34:3).

c)

The territory of Edom is also referred to as Seir, the name of a giant that ruled that land before Esau’s descendants conquered it, (Gen.36:20-30).

d)

Five times, twice in both Isaiah, twice in Ezekiel, and once in Mark, Edom is called Idumea.

e)

The rarest title for Edom’s land and perhaps the most ancient is the land of Uz, (Lam. 4:21).

d.

Their contribution good and bad when Babylon laid seize upon Jerusalem.

1)

The poor among the Jews were mercifully left behind by the conquering Babylonians to tend the empty fields of Judah, but they were in constant danger of Edomite attack, (Obad.14). Amos recorded this danger when he put it in the following manner, “[Edom] did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever”, (1:11).

2)

A few Jews found places of safety in Edom and in the other surrounding countries, (Jer. 40:11-12).