14 He established garrisons in Eʹdom. In all Eʹdom he established garrisons, and all the Eʹdom·ites became David’s servants.+ Jehovah gave David victory* wherever he went.+

2 “I have shown love to you people,”+ says Jehovah.

But you say: “How have you shown us love?”

“Was not Eʹsau the brother of Jacob?”+ declares Jehovah. “But I loved Jacob, 3 and Eʹsau I hated;+ and I made his mountains desolate+ and left his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.”+

10 Not only then but also when Re·bekʹah conceived twins from the one man, Isaac our forefather;+ 11 for when they had not yet been born and had not practiced anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose respecting the choosing might continue dependent, not on works, but on the One who calls, 12 it was said to her: “The older will be the slave of the younger.”+ 13 Just as it is written: “I loved Jacob, but Eʹsau I hated.”+