List of rulers of Edom
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The following is a list of the known rulers of the Kingdom of Edom in the Levant.
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[edit] Kings
[edit] Descendants of Esau
- Esau ha-Edom-the Red cs. early 1600's BCE ,son of Isaac
- Eliphaz ?
- Teman I
[edit] Implied non hereditery kings
- Jobab of Bozrah
- Husham the Temanite
- Hadad I of Avith
- Samlah the Masrekite
- Saul of Rehoboth
- Ba'al-Hanan bar Achbor
- Hadad II of P'ai ca. 1300's BC
- To Egypt ?-ca. 1200's
[edit] Dukes/Chiefs
- Timnah
- Aliah
- Jetheth
- Oholibamah
- Elah
- Pinon
- Kenaz
- Teman II
- Mibzar
- Magdiel
- Iram
- To Israel ca. 990-922
- To Judah 922-early 9th cent.
- ?
- Aiarammu (Assyrian name; Edomite name unknown) fl. ca. 740
- Shalman fl. ca. 735
- To Assyria 724-612
- Melek Ram fl. ca. 700
- Kaus Geber fl. ca. 700
- ?
- To Babylon 612-539
- Independence 539-ca. 275
- ?? .............................................c. 270-c. 200
- To the Seleucid Empire..........................c. 200-160
- Gorgias...........................................160's
- ?? ................................................160-109
- To Maccabean Kingdom of Israel 109 BCE.
- Governors of Idumea under the Hasmoneans
- Antipas.....................................c.100-78
- Antipater (governor of all Judaea from 55).....78-43
[edit] Governors of Idumea under Herod
Note that the Herodian dynasty itself was of Idumaean extraction.
- Joseph ben Antipater (bro. Herod the Great).c. 43-35
- Costobarus (brother-in-law Herod the Great).......30's
- To Judea directly.................................30's-4
- To Rome..........................................4 BCE-60 CE
[edit] Governors of Idumea under the Revolutionary government of Judaea
- Niger the Peraean.................................60's-68
- Joshua ben Saphas ha-Kohen..........................66-68 and...
- Eleazar ben Hananiah................................66-68
- To Rome
