²³ For the people of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. And when they ^[a]had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, ^(A)they helped to destroy one another.

²⁰ Then Saul and all the people who were with him assembled, and they went to the battle; and indeed ^(A)every man’s sword was against his neighbor, and there was very great confusion.

²² When the three hundred ^(A)blew the trumpets, ^(B)the Lord set ^(C)every man’s sword against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army fled to ^[a]Beth Acacia, toward Zererah, as far as the border of ^(D)Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.

² “Son of man, set your face against ^(A)Mount Seir and ^(B)prophesy against it, ³ and say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord God:

⁴ To Isaac I gave ^(A)Jacob and Esau. To ^(B)Esau I gave the mountains of Seir to possess, ^(C)but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

⁵ Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, ^(A)because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

⁸ So Esau dwelt in ^(A)Mount Seir. ^(B)Esau is Edom.

⁹ And this is the genealogy of Esau the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir.

^6 (A)and the Horites in their mountain of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is by the wilderness.