Among all the peoples of southwestern Asia they had no allies except the Nabateans, an Arabian people that had driven the Edomites from their home on Mount Seir.

The doom which Ezekiel pronounces upon the Edomites in 25 is because of the revenge that they wreaked upon the Jews at this time.

Jannati Shahr seemed, on a larger scale and a vastly more magnificent plan, something like the hidden rock-city of Petra in the mountains of Edoma city wholly carved by the Edomites out of the solid granite, without a single stone having been laid in mortar.