THE EDOMITES-DESCENDANTS OF ESAU MALACHI CHAPTER 1

 THE BURDEN OF THE WORD OF THE LORD TO ISRAEL BY MALACHI. 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 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 IGDIGNATION FOREVER, AND YOUR EYES SHALL SEE, AND YE SHALL SAY, THE LORD WILL BE MAGNIFIED FROM THE BORDER OF ISRAEL. 

EDOM WAS AN ANCIENT LAND BORDERING ANCIENT ISRAEL, LOCATED IN WHAT IS NOW SOUTHWESTERN JORDAN, BETWEEN THE DEAD SEA AND THE GULF OF AQUABA , THE CAPITAL OF THE NATION WAS BOZRAH, ONE OF SEVERAL CITIES ALONG THE KING'S HIGHWAYTHAT RAN FROM AQUABA TO PRESENT DAY SOUTHERN JORDAN.

THE EDOMITES WERE THE DESCENDANTS OF ESAU WHO OFTEN BATTLED THE JEWISH NATION. EDOM WAS SOUTHEAST PALESTINE , STRETCHED FROM THE RED SEA AT ELATH TO THE DEAD SEA. IT ENCOMPASSED SOME OF ISRAEL'S MOST FERTILE LAND. THE EDOMITES ATTACKED ISRAEL UNDER SAUL'S RULERSHIP.

REMEMBER! ESAU SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT TO HIS BROTHER JACOB.

EZEKIEL 16 4 AS SOON AS A CHILD WAS BORN IT WAS WASHED AND RUBBED WITH SALT. AND THEN WITH BANDAGES JOB 38 9 A HEBREW MOTHER REMAINED FORTY DAYS IN SECLUSION AFTER THE BIRTH OF A SON, AND AFTER THE BIRTH OF A DAUGHTER DOUBLE THAT NUMBER OF DAYS. AT THE CLOSE OF THAT PERIOD SHE ENTERED INTO THE TABERNACLE OR TEMPLE AND OFFERED UP A SACRIFICE OF PURIFICATION LEV, 12 1-8 LUKE 2:22 A SON WAS CIRCUMCISED ON THE EIGHTH DAY AFTER HIS BIRTH, BEING THEREBY CONSECRATED TO GOD.GENESIS 17:10.