List of rulers of Edom

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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