²³ The Ammonites^(A) and Moabites rose up against the men from Mount Seir^(B) to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another.^(C)

²⁰ Then Saul and all his men assembled and went to the battle. They found the Philistines in total confusion, striking^(A) each other with their swords.

²² When the three hundred trumpets sounded,^(A) the Lord caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other^(B) with their swords.^(C) The army fled to Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel Meholah^(D) near Tabbath.

² “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir;^(A) prophesy against it ³ and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand^(B) against you and make you a desolate waste.^(C)

⁴ and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau.^(A) I assigned the hill country of Seir^(B) to Esau, but Jacob and his family went down to Egypt.^(C)

⁵ Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his own.^(A)

⁹ This is the account^(D) of the family line of Esau the father of the Edomites^(E) in the hill country of Seir.

⁶ and the Horites^(A) in the hill country of Seir,^(B) as far as El Paran^(C) near the desert.