Bible Person
Male · 4 cross references
This Bela entry refers to Bela son of Beor, an Edomite king in the early royal lists, not Bela son of Benjamin already separately overridden. He belongs to the remembered succession of Edom's rulers. First appears in Gen 36:32.1
AI summary: This Bela matters because the cross references place him at the head of one stage in Edom's king list before Israel's monarchy becomes central. His brief appearance is genealogical-political rather than dramatic, but it shows that neighboring nations possessed their own established royal memory. That comparative context matters in Genesis and Chronicles. Taken together, the material presents this Bela as an Edomite king whose name helps preserve the political history of Edom.1
Central Figure
Bela
The son of Beor, and a king of Edom (Gen.
The son of Beor, and a king of Edom (Gen. 36:32, 33; 1 Chr. 1:43). 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.