Esau
21 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
15 sections
- A Hunter
- Ancestor of Edomites
- Beloved by Isaac
- Birth of
- Called Edom
- Descendants of
- His Marriage To, a Grief to Isaac and Rebekah
- His Name Used to Denote his Descendants and Their Country
- Hostility of Descendants of, Toward the Descendants of Jacob
- Marries a Hittite Woman
- Meets Jacob on the Return of the Latter from Haran
- Mount of Edom, Called Mount of Esau
- Polygamy of
- Prophecies Concerning
- Sells his Birthright for a Single Meal
A Hunter
- Genesis 25:27–28 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. …
Ancestor of Edomites
- 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.
Beloved by Isaac
- Genesis 25:27–28 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. …
Birth of
- Genesis 25:19–26 This is the account of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac, …
- 1 Chronicles 1:34 Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.
Called Edom
- Genesis 36:1 This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).
- Genesis 36:8 So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.
Descendants of
- Genesis 36:1 This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).
His Marriage To, a Grief to Isaac and Rebekah
- Genesis 26:35 And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
His Name Used to Denote his Descendants and Their Country
- 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.
- 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.
- Obadiah 6 But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!
Hostility of Descendants of, Toward the Descendants of Jacob
- Obadiah 10–14 Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever. …
Marries a Hittite Woman
- 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.
Meets Jacob on the Return of the Latter from Haran
- 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.
Mount of Edom, Called Mount of Esau
- Obadiah 8–9 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 18–21 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.” …
Polygamy of
- 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 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 36:2–3 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, …
Prophecies Concerning
- Obadiah 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.” …
Sells his Birthright for a Single Meal
- Genesis 25:29–34 One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished. …
- 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,
- Romans 9:13 So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
- 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.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.