The Sacred Land Of Edom At Al Sarah Mountain Range "Seir" [View All]

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The Sacred Land Of Edom At Al Sarah Mountain Range "Seir"


Edom was an ancient Bedouin Kingdom in the north-east of the Sinai wilderness, in what are now parts of Sharah mountains in southern Jordan.

The Hebrew name for the Sharah mountains was Seir. This is known in the Bible which repeatedly refers to the Edomites inhabiting Seir. The Old Testament often links God with this particular mountain range. The prophet Isaiah, for instance, tells us that when God speaks to him, "he calleth to me out of Seir" (Isaiah 21:11). One particular mountain in the range is specifically referred to as Mount Seir. The prophet Ezekiel, for instance, tells his followers to "set thy face against Mount Seir' (Ezekiel 35:20. A particular passage leaves us with little doubt that God was thought to reside there. In Judges 5:4-5, the Judge Deborah (who is Edomite) prays to God:

"Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Isreal."

Deuteronomy 33:2 is even more specific. When Moses is dying he calls upon the Lord to bless the children of Israel and "the Lord came from Sinai and rose up from Seir unto them". This is evidence that God was thought to reside in Seir.

The Mountains of Seir "The photo is taken from top of the Sharah mountain range towards the rocky mountains of Edom Valley or Petra area. We know from Diodorus that the Edomite deity was called Dhu-Ash-Sharah by the Nabaeteans, which translate to Lord of the Sharah "mountain range'. Mount Aaron is in the center and Beidah area is in the far right". The land of midin could be seen from these mountain top in the valley below- This location fits with the Exodus account of Moses' exile in Midian , when Moses became a shepherd just like today's bedouins. Moses' father in-law was Jethro "Shuaieb" the Midianiate. The nomadic shepherds would lead their flocks of goats hundreds of miles around the course of the year, continually moving on to fresh grazing lands. According to Exodus 3:1, Moses' first discoveries on such a journey was the Mountain of Sinai.


Edom was originally an independent kingdom centered in the Sharah mountains in what is now southern Jordan . By the tenth century BC its borders stretched from the south of the Dead Sea down to the Red Sea. Much of this land formed the eastern part of what the Old Testament describes as the Sinai wilderness.

In the Book of Genesis, the Israelites descended from Abraham's grandson Jacob , and the Edomites descended from Abraham's other grandson Esau. According to Genesis 36:1-8, these two brothers were separated because Jacob tricked Esau out of his inheritance; Esau remained in Edom where his descendants became the Edomites, while Jacob moved to the Samarian mountains and his descendants became the Israelites. Archeology has shown that the ancient people of Edom were virtually indistinguishable from the Israelites. Samples of human remains found in the Samarian mountain and the Edom Sharah mountain, both dating to around 1700 BC, when the story of Jacob and Esau appears to be set, were sent for DNA tests to Waseda University in Tokyo-Japan in the year 2000. The results showed that both the Samarian and the Edomite remains were closely related, certainly from the same ethnic group.

According to Genesis 17, 7-8, God picked Abraham to be the father of his chosen nation.

"And i will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of canaan, for ever lasting possession: and i will be their God."

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