Genesis 36:2 - Commentary

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Text -- Genesis 36:2 (NET)

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36:2 Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

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Names, People and Places:

· Adah a woman; one of Lamech's wives, before the flood,daughter of Elon the Hittite; Esau's second wife

· Anah son of Zibeon the "Hivite"; father of Oholibamah Esau's wife; an Edomite chief, the honorary son of his grandfather Seir the Horite (ZD357,360, DC)

· Canaanites the region ofeast Mediterranean coastal land from Arvad (modern Lebanon) south to Gaza,the coast land from Mt. Carmel north to the Orontes River

· Elon father of Basemath/Adah, the Hittite wife of Esau,son of Zebulun son of Israel,a town in the territory of Dan somewhere west of Jerusalem,a judge of Israel of the tribe of Zebulun

· Esau a son of Isaac and Rebekah,son of Isaac & Rebekah; Jacob's elder twin brother,a people (and nation) descended from Esau, Jacob's brother

· Hittite a person/people living in the land of Syro-Palestine

· Hivite a person/people descended from Canaan son of Ham son of Noah

· Oholibamah daughter of Zibeon of Seir; wife of Esau

· Zibeon the Hivite grandfather-in-law of Esau,son of Seir