Esau Is Evil/Enemy

Question 1

Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

Answer 1

Ezekiel 35:1-9 v.5

Question 2

I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob,
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever.

Answer 2

Malachi 1:2-4

Question 3

And he said unto me, From Abraham unto Isaac, when Jacob and Esau were born of him, Jacob’s hand held first the heel of Esau.
For Esau is the end of the world, and Jacob is the beginning of it that followeth.

Answer 3

2 Esdras 6:8-9

Question 4

And after his death they all put crowns upon themselves; so did their sons after them many years: and evils were multiplied in the earth.

Answer 4

1 Maccabees 1:9

Question 5

Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

Answer 5

Habakkuk 2:4-11 (v. 4)

Question 6

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

Answer 6

Job 9:24

Question 7

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Answer 7

Psalm 49:11

Question 8

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Answer 8

2 Thessalonians 2:3

Question 9

As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

Answer 9

Romans 9:13

Question 10

Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:
But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

Answer 10

Amos 1:9-11

Question 11

But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

Answer 11

Obadiah 1:12

Question 12

Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

Answer 12

Psalms 137:7-9

Question 13

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

Answer 13

Psalms 83:1-6 (v. 2, 6)

Question 14

Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.

Answer 14

Deuteronomy 23:7

Question 15

Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

Answer 15

Genesis 36:8

Question 16

And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

Answer 16

Zechariah 1:15