ContradictionsReading order 333Bible context 2 min read
How should the Edomites be treated?
A command grounded in kinship contrasts with later portrayals of Edom as a target of conquest and destruction.
- Textual conflict
- Weak tension
- The alleged conflict needs substantial assumptions, such as treating an omission as a denial or figurative language as literal.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
A prohibition on abhorring Edomites does not expressly prohibit military judgment or war, so the hostile treatments differ without opposite rules for one condition.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Edomites must be treated as brothers rather than abhorred
Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.
Deuteronomy 23:7
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Deuteronomy 23
Edom faces conquest and divinely announced slaughter
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
2 Kings 14:3
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:2 Kings 14