2 Chronicles 20:10

mount Seir Here and in 2 Chronicles 20:23 in the enumeration of the allied peoples "Mount Seir" takes the place of the "Meunim" of 2 Chronicles 20:1, yet no doubt the same contingent is meant. Mount Seir was indeed part of the territory of the Edomites, and the Meunim (Minaeans) were Arabians, but the two peoples were cognate and moreover were neighbours, so that Minaean invaders would probably bring along with them Edomite kinsmen in passing through Mount Seir. Mount Seir extended from the south of the Dead Sea to the head of the Gulf of Akaba.

whom thou wouldest notetc.] Cp. Deuteronomy 2:4-5; Deuteronomy 2:9; Deuteronomy 2:19; see also Numbers 20:14-21.

but they turned R.V. but they turned aside.