Genesis 36:31
New International Version
These were the kings who reigned in Edom before any Israelite king reigned:

New Living Translation
These are the kings who ruled in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the Israelites:

English Standard Version
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the Israelites.

Berean Standard Bible
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:

King James Bible
And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

New King James Version
Now these were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel:

New American Standard Bible
Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the sons of Israel.

NASB 1995
Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the sons of Israel.

NASB 1977
Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the sons of Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king of the sons of Israel reigned.

Amplified Bible
And these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:

Christian Standard Bible
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
These are the kings who ruled in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the Israelites:

American Standard Version
And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And these are the Kings that reigned in the land of Adum before a King would reign over the children of Israel.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
these are the kings which reigned in Edom, before a king reigned in Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the children of Israel had a king were these:

English Revised Version
And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
These were the kings who ruled Edom before any king ruled the people of Israel:

International Standard Version
This is a list of the kings who ruled the territory of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelis.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

Literal Standard Version
And these [are] the kings who have reigned in the land of Edom before the reigning of a king over the sons of Israel.

Majority Standard Bible
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:

New American Bible
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites.

NET Bible
These were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the Israelites:

New Revised Standard Version
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the Israelites.

New Heart English Bible
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

World English Bible
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
And these are the kings who have reigned in the land of Edom before the reigning of a king over the sons of Israel.

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Context
The Kings of Edom
31These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites: 32Bela son of Beor reigned in Edom; the name of his city was Dinhabah.…

Cross References
Genesis 17:6
I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

Genesis 17:16
And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her."

Genesis 35:11
And God told him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation--even a company of nations--shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.

Genesis 36:30
Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. They are the chiefs of the Horites, according to their divisions in the land of Seir.

Numbers 20:14
From Kadesh, Moses sent messengers to tell the king of Edom, "This is what your brother Israel says: You know all the hardship that has befallen us,

1 Chronicles 1:43
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites: Bela son of Beor. His city was named Dinhabah.


Treasury of Scripture

And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

the kings.

Genesis 17:6,16
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee…

Genesis 25:23
And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

Numbers 20:14
And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:

before there.

Genesis 35:11
And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

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Genesis 36
1. Esau's three wives.
6. His removal to mount Seir.
9. His sons.
15. The dukes which descended of his sons.
20. The sons and dukes of Seir the Horite.
24. Anah finds mules.
31. The kings of Edom.
40. The dukes that descended of Esau.














(31) The kings.--In the triumphal song of Moses on the Red Sea we still read of "dukes of Edom" (Exodus 15:15; but when Israel had reached the borders of their land, we find that Edom had then a king (Numbers 20:14). But in the list given here, no king succeeds his father, and probably these were petty monarchs, who sprang up in various parts of the country during a long period of civil war, in which the Horites were finally as completely conquered as were the Canaanites in Palestine under the heavy hands of Saul and Solomon. In the time of the dukes, there were also Horite dukes of the race of Seir, ruling districts mixed up apparently with those governed by the descendants of Esau. But all these now disappear.

Verse 31. - And these (which follow) are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any (literally, before the reigning of a) king over (or, to) the children of Israel.

1. The reference to Israelitish kings in this place has been explained as an evidence of post-Mosaic authorship (Le Clerc, Bleek, Ewald, Bohlen, et alii), or at least as a later interpolation from 1 Chronicles 1:43 (Kennicott, A. Clarke, Lange), but is sufficiently accounted for by remembering that in Genesis 35:11 kings had been promised to Jacob, while the blessing pronounced on Esau (Genesis 27:40) implied that in his line also should arise governors, the historian being understood to say that though the promised kings had not yet arisen in the line of Jacob, the house of Esau had attained at a somewhat early period to political importance (Calvin, Michaelis, Rosenmüller, Keil, Kalisch, Gerlach, Havernick, and others).

2. The difficulty of finding room for the dukes (seven, four and three, all grandsons of Esau, vers. 15-19), the kings (eight in number, vers. 32-39), and again the dukes (in all eleven, vers. 40-43), that intervened between Esau and Moses disappears if the kings and dukes existed contemporaneously, of which Exodus 15:15, as compared with Numbers 20:14, affords probable evidence.

3. As to the character of the Edomitish kings, it is apparent that it was not a hereditary monarchy, since in no case does the son succeed the father, but an elective sovereignty, the kings being chosen by the dukes, alluphim, or phylarchs (Keil, Hengstenberg, Kalisch, Gerlach), though the idea of successive usurpations (Lange) is not without a measure of probability.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
These
וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ (wə·’êl·leh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those

are the kings
הַמְּלָכִ֔ים (ham·mə·lā·ḵîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4428: A king

who
אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

reigned
מָלְכ֖וּ (mā·lə·ḵū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 4427: To reign, inceptively, to ascend the throne, to induct into royalty, to take counsel

in the land
בְּאֶ֣רֶץ (bə·’e·reṣ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 776: Earth, land

of Edom
אֱד֑וֹם (’ĕ·ḏō·wm)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 123: The name of a condiment

before
לִפְנֵ֥י (lip̄·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

any king
מֶ֖לֶךְ (me·leḵ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

ruled
מְלָךְ־ (mə·lāḵ-)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 4427: To reign, inceptively, to ascend the throne, to induct into royalty, to take counsel

over the Israelites:
לִבְנֵ֥י (liḇ·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son


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