Horites

The Horites lived in Mount Seir, where Chedorlaomer and the kings with him struck them in Abram's day (Genesis 14:5–6). Genesis lists “the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land” and “the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom” (Genesis 36:20–21; Genesis 36:29–30).

The descendants of Esau later took Seir from them: “The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them” (Deuteronomy 2:12). Moses told Israel that Yahweh had done this for Esau (Deuteronomy 2:22), and that Israel must take none of Esau’s land, “because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession” (Deuteronomy 2:5).