Edom
   (1.) The name of Esau (q.v.), Gen. 25:30, "Feed me, I pray thee,
   with that same red pottage [Heb. haadom, haadom, i.e., 'the red
   pottage, the red pottage'] ...Therefore was his name called
   Edom", i.e., Red.
   
     (2.) Idumea (Isa. 34:5, 6; Ezek. 35:15). "The field of Edom"
   (Gen. 32:3), "the land of Edom" (Gen. 36:16), was mountainous
   (Obad. 1:8, 9, 19, 21). It was called the land, or "the mountain
   of Seir," the rough hills on the east side of the Arabah. It
   extended from the head of the Gulf of Akabah, the Elanitic gulf,
   to the foot of the Dead Sea (1 Kings 9:26), and contained, among
   other cities, the rock-hewn Sela (q.v.), generally known by the
   Greek name Petra (2 Kings 14:7). It is a wild and rugged region,
   traversed by fruitful valleys. Its old capital was Bozrah (Isa.
   63:1). The early inhabitants of the land were Horites. They were
   destroyed by the Edomites (Deut. 2:12), between whom and the
   kings of Israel and Judah there was frequent war (2 Kings 8:20;
   2 Chr. 28:17).
   
     At the time of the Exodus they churlishly refused permission
   to the Israelites to pass through their land (Num. 20:14-21),
   and ever afterwards maintained an attitude of hostility toward
   them. They were conquered by David (2 Sam. 8:14; comp. 1 Kings
   9:26), and afterwards by Amaziah (2 Chr. 25:11, 12). But they
   regained again their independence, and in later years, during
   the decline of the Jewish kingdom (2 Kings 16:6; R.V. marg.,
   "Edomites"), made war against Israel. They took part with the
   Chaldeans when Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem, and afterwards
   they invaded and held possession of the south of Palestine as
   far as Hebron. At length, however, Edom fell under the growing
   Chaldean power (Jer. 27:3, 6).
   
     There are many prophecies concerning Edom (Isa. 34:5, 6; Jer.
   49:7-18; Ezek. 25:13; 35:1-15; Joel 3:19; Amos 1:11; Obad.; Mal.
   1:3, 4) which have been remarkably fulfilled. The present
   desolate condition of that land is a standing testimony to the
   inspiration of these prophecies. After an existence as a people
   for above seventeen hundred years, they have utterly
   disappeared, and their language even is forgotten for ever. In
   Petra, "where kings kept their court, and where nobles
   assembled, there no man dwells; it is given by lot to birds, and
   beasts, and reptiles."
   
     The Edomites were Semites, closely related in blood and in
   language to the Israelites. They dispossessed the Horites of
   Mount Seir; though it is clear, from Gen. 36, that they
   afterwards intermarried with the conquered population. Edomite
   tribes settled also in the south of Judah, like the Kenizzites
   (Gen. 36:11), to whom Caleb and Othniel belonged (Josh. 15:17).
   The southern part of Edom was known as Teman.
   

Edom, red, earthy; of blood

Edom, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
   Population (2000):    322
   Housing Units (2000): 141
   Land area (2000):     4.149445 sq. miles (10.747014 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.020555 sq. miles (0.053237 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    4.170000 sq. miles (10.800251 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            22744
   Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
   Location:             32.377611 N, 95.616485 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     75756
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
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