Edom
Edom (; Edomite language, Edomite: ; , lit.: "red"; Akkadian language, Akkadian: , ; Egyptian language, Ancient Egyptian: ) was an ancient kingdom that stretched across areas in the south of present-day Jordan and Israel. Edom and the Edomi ...
mentioned in the
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36:31-43. He succeeded
Samlah of Masrekah Samlah was a king of Edom mentioned in the Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach" . '' Rehoboth on the River". He was succeeded by Baal-hanan ben Achbor.
Although dates and other details of his reign are unknown - as he is not mentioned in any other surviving source - some have speculated that he might be Salatis, the first named Hyksos King.Kings of EdomBook of Genesis people