Masrekah

Masrekah ("vineyard") was the royal city of King Samlah, the fifth of eight Edomite kings listed in Genesis 36:31-39 as ruling "before any king reigned over the Israelites." The full Edomite king-list — Bela of Dinhabah, Jobab of Bozrah, Husham the Temanite, Hadad of Avith, Samlah of Masrekah, Shaul, Baal-hanan, and Hadar of Pau — demonstrates that the descendants of Esau had developed a formal monarchy generations before Israel asked Samuel for a king. The exact site is unknown but lay somewhere in the highlands of Edom south of the Dead Sea.