The Edomites and the Israelites mostly avoided each other through the era of the judges, but by the time of the kings it was a story of sporadic conflict:
1 Samuel 14 - Saul fights with the Edomites.
1 Samuel 21:7 - Saul's head sheperd is an Edomite.
1 Samuel 22 - King Saul's guards refuse to kill the priests but Doeg, the Edomite shepherd, agrees and kills 85 priests PLUS the men, women and children (even infants) in the place that provided David refuge. Just a guess, but this probably did not make God really happy.
2 Samuel 8:13-14 - God grants David victory over the Edomites.
1 Kings 11:1, 14 Solomon's many women included Edomites, and Solomon had advesaries from Edom.
2 Chronicles 20 & 2 Kings 3 - King Jehoshaphat fights alongside the Edomite king against the Moabites. (They win!)
2 Kings 8:20-22 - Edom revolts against Judah.
2 Chronicles 25 & 28 - Israelites with Edoms false gods & Edom takes prisoners from Judah.
(more about Edom during the time of the prophets forthcoming.....sometime)
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