Edom, the Edomites (Idumea) being the descendants of Esau who was Edom.

The Edomites first established a kingdom (“Edom – Idumaea”) in the southern area of modern Jordan and later migrated into southern parts of the Kingdom of Judah (Judea).

Edom also being Greco/Rome

During the revolt of the Maccabees against the Seleucid Hasmonean kingdom (early 2nd century BE), II Maccabees refers to a Seleucid general named Gorgias as “Governor of Idumaea”;

The Greek General Gorgias was a descendant of Edom (Esau – Idumaea).

The Edomites (Idumaea) settled in the region called Judea in Israel:

From Judea, the Edomites always sought to expand their political leadership over the entire nation of Israel.

Judas Maccabeus conquered their territory for a time around 163 BC.

They were again subdued by John Hyrcanus (c. 125 BC), who forcibly converted them, among others, to Judaism, and incorporated them into the Jewish nation.

Antipater the Idumaean, the progenitor of the Herodian Dynasty along with Judean progenitors, that ruled Judea after the Roman conquest,

was of mixed Edomite/Judean origin.

Under Herod the Great, the Idumaea province was ruled for him by a series of governors, among whom were his brother Joseph ben Antipater, and his brother-in-law Costobarus. Josephas.

During this time when the Edomites were seeking to rule and control Israel, this is also when most of their political strategies were brought into existence.

For example – Democracy:

Democracy was invented by the Edomites (Greece) – Idumaea as a freedom of expression, which corrupted the citizens of Israel by giving them the right to violet God’s laws through the immoral conduct of behaving immorally against the Torah.

The Idumaea doctrine became the teachings of Nicolaitan which Yeshua the Christ declare as the teachings He hated in the book of Revelation

In 587/86 BCE, both by peaceful penetration and by military means and taking advantage of the already-weakened state of Judah.

The people appear under a Greek form of their old name, as Idumeans or Idumaeans, and their new territory was called Idumea or Idumaea (Greek: Ἰδουμαία, Idoumaía; Latin: Idūmaea), a term that was used in New Testament times.