2 Samuel 8:2

² And he smiteth Moab, and measureth them with a line, causing them to lie down on the earth, and he measureth two lines to put to death, and the fulness of the line to keep alive, and the Moabites are to David for servants, bearers of a present.

Edom

'Edom' or 'Idumea,' as in Isaiah 34:5, signifies people who are in evil and falsities derived there.

34. Internal Meaning of Isaiah, Chapter 34

1-8 A last judgment upon all who are in evil and in falsities therefrom, is described. (15)

9-15 Having been cast down into hell they will abide in horrid falsities and evils to eternity. (15)

16 This has been foretold. (15)

17 It will be otherwise with those who are not such. (11)

Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.