- List of rulers of Edom
The following is a list of the known rulers of the Kingdom of
Edom in the Levant.= Kings =
Descendants of Esau
* Esau ha-Edom-the Red cs. early 1600's BCE ,son of Isaac
* Eliphaz ?
* Teman I
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
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
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
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
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