Genesis 36:23
And the children of Shobal were these; Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
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Gill's Exposition
The children of Ezer are these,.... Another son of Seir, who had the following sons:
Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Achan; the two last are called Zavan and Jakan, in Ch1 1:42.
In the midst of this genealogy of the Edomites here is inserted the genealogy of the Horites, those Canaanites, or Hittites (compare Gen 26:34), that were the natives of Mount Seir. Mention is made of…
The Horites the aboriginal inhabitants of the country "the sons of Seir, the Horite," were possibly so called from the word ḥor, "a hole"; cf. 1Sa 13:6; 1Sa 14:11. This derivation has long been…