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Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in
the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife. And these are
the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these
were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their dukes.
    These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and
Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, And Dishon: these are the dukes of the Horites,
the children of Seir in the land of Edom. And the children of Lotan were Hori
and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna. And the children of Shobal were
these; Alvan and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. And these are the
children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the
mules in the wilderness fed the asses of Zibeon his father. And the children
of Anah were these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah. And these
are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. The
children of Ezer are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan. The children of
Dishan are these; Uz and Aran. These are the dukes that came of the Horites;
duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah, Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke
Dishan,: these are the dukes that came of Hori among their dukes in the land
of Seir.
    And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there
reigned any king over the children of Israel. And Bela the son of Belor
reigned in Edom: and the name of his city was Dinhabah. And Bela died, and
Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. And Jobab died, and
Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead. And Husham died, and Hadad
the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead:
and the name of his city was Avith. And Hadad died, and Shamlah of Masrekah
reigned in his stead. And Shamlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river
reigned in his stead. And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned
in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wifes name was
Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. And these are the

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names of the dukes that came of Esau, according to their families, after their
places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth, Duke
Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon, Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar, Duke
Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their
habitations, in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the
Edomites."
    So now, we have identified the final person mentioned in Psalm 83. We see
in the group that there is intelligence, cunning, strength, proficiency in the
use of weapons, wealth, shared bitterness towards Sarah, Isaac, and Jacob.
Each one also had heard many times the recital of the Shem family lore from
Adam all the way down to their parents. They also had heard the Ham or
Japheth spin on the lore from their in-laws ( in Hagar's case from her
parents ). In their bitterness, they probably accepted the non Shem versions
as representing a version closer to the truth. One thing is certain. A
person who feels that they have been greatly wronged, generally becomes
extremely vocal about it. I am sure that to be uprooted into exile would
create some extreme vocalization. I have no difficulty in seeing these
stories in one form or another being repeated world wide in one form or
another after enough generations had passed. After hearing a story enough
times, it becomes ingrained, and the 'truth' of the story is accepted as
factual. A fact, that tempers a persons every day performance. Of these, two
are fairly worldwide in acceptance, one that man was expelled from paradise,
and two that there was a devastating flood. I believe more of the story came
across the generations than is generally recognized. The hatred and distrust
of Isaac and Jacob, what they and their descendents stood for, was ingrained
in the Greeks and Romans, through the passing down of this lore, by way of the
Hittites through what is now Turkey. Even though it may not have been
cognitive, it was there. Also, universal in each, was a much higher self
interest, than that shown by the trichotomous side. Self interest was the
prime motivator in each action taken by them.
    In the chapters on Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and others we will see hints

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to this ingrained lore, along with the universal dichotomous traits. Through
this analysis, possibly, we can better understand the European occupations of
the people of Israel. Since Alexander the Great was Aristotle's student, we
should be able to make the correlation between philosophy and military action.
It is also just a step to the Romans, who picked up Greek philosophy. At the
end then we should better understand dichotomous versus trichotomous, their
similarities and dissimilarities.

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