"The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan and Akan." Genesis 36:27
Paulina says: Did you know that Akan is the name of one of Ezer's sons? Ezer is a direct descendant of Esau in Genesis in the Bible???
More info: Genesis 36 (New International Version).....
Esau’s Descendants
36 This is the account of the family line of Esau (that is, Edom).
2 Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite— 3 also Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.
4 Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel, 5 and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in Canaan.
6 Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the members of his household, as well as his livestock and all his other animals and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan, and moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob. 7 Their possessions were too great for them to remain together; the land where they were staying could not support them both because of their livestock. 8 So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the hill country of Seir.
9 This is the account of the family line of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.
10 These are the names of Esau’s sons:
Eliphaz, the son of Esau’s wife Adah, and Reuel, the son of Esau’s wife Basemath.
11 The sons of Eliphaz:
Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam and Kenaz.
12 Esau’s son Eliphaz also had a concubine named Timna, who bore him Amalek. These were grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.
13 The sons of Reuel:
Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These were grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.
14 The sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon, whom she bore to Esau:
Jeush, Jalam and Korah.
15 These were the chiefs among Esau’s descendants:
The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau:
Chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz, 16 Korah,[a] Gatam and Amalek. These were the chiefs descended from Eliphaz in Edom; they were grandsons of Adah.
17 The sons of Esau’s son Reuel:
Chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These were the chiefs descended from Reuel in Edom; they were grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.
18 The sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah:
Chiefs Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These were the chiefs descended from Esau’s wife Oholibamah daughter of Anah.
19 These were the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these were their chiefs.
20 These were the sons of Seir the Horite, who were living in the region:
Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, 21 Dishon, Ezer and Dishan. These sons of Seir in Edom were Horite chiefs.
22 The sons of Lotan:
Hori and Homam.[b] Timna was Lotan’s sister.
23 The sons of Shobal:
Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho and Onam.
24 The sons of Zibeon:
Aiah and Anah. This is the Anah who discovered the hot springs[c] in the desert while he was grazing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.
25 The children of Anah:
Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.
26 The sons of Dishon[d]:
Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran and Keran.
27 The sons of Ezer:
Bilhan, Zaavan and Akan.
28 The sons of Dishan:
Uz and Aran.
29 These were the Horite chiefs:
Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, 30 Dishon, Ezer and Dishan. These were the Horite chiefs, according to their divisions, in the land of Seir.
Esau
Esau is the progenitor of the Edomites and the elder twin brother of Jacob, the patriarch of the Israelites.[ Esau and Jacob were the sons of Isaac and Rebekah, and the grandsons of Abraham and Sarah. Of the twins, Esau was the first to be born with Jacob following, holding his heel (the Hebrew name Yaacov meaning "Heel-holder"). Isaac was sixty years old and Rebekah is believed to have been younger when the boys were born. The grandfather Abraham was still alive, being 160 years old at that time.
Esau, a "man of the field" became a hunter who had "rough" qualities that distinguished him from his twin brother. Jacob was a shy or simple man, depending on the translation of the Hebrew word "Tam" (which also means "relatively perfect man"). Throughout Genesis, Esau is frequently shown as being supplanted by his younger twin Jacob (Israel).
Do read about Esau and the selling of his birth right for food and much more (its all sooo very interesting) via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esau
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akan,_son_of_Ezer#Akan
No Akan is the grandson of Sier.Esau settled in the land where Sier had first settled due to increase in livestock.Sier gave birth to Ezer, and Ezer gave birth to Akan.So sorry we are not descendants of Esau ..well at least as per the chapter of the bible you quoted..
ReplyDeleteAccording to the Strong's Concordance, Akan is a descendant of Esau (Edom) whose wives were all Canaanite women which means according to this narrative, Akan is of Canaanite descent as well.
DeleteDear Paulina, please history must be based on facts but not guesses.
DeleteWho told you that Akans descended from Esau
Esau,also called Edom and his descendants rather invaded My. Seir region and attacked the Seirites ( descendants of Seir,the Father of the Horites) who biologically and ancestrally descended from Cannan, the fourth son of Ham, son of Noah.
Cannan had 12 sons, and the 6th son was called HIVI. HIVI gave birth to HURI and HURI gave birth to SEIR, and SEIR gave birth to EZER, and RZER gave birth to AKAN ( JA-AKSN)
It is this AKAN who is the Great Great Ancestral Patriarch of SLL AKANS in the world today.
So Paulina, Akans never descended from Esau
Esau is rather an Enemy ofvAKAN PEOPLE.
Thank you.
( Nana George Ankomah Yeboah)-An Akan Historian.
Merry Christmas and Prosperous New
Well, are we not all descendants of Noah and his family?
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
DeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDelete