These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who were living in the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
In the midst of this genealogy of the Edomites here is inserted the genealogy of the Horites, those Canaanites, or Hittites (compare Gen 26:34), that were the natives of Mount Seir. Mention is made of them, Gen 14:6, and of their interest in Mount Seir, before the Edomites took possession of it, Deu 2:12, Deu 2:22.
Commenting on Genesis 36:20-30
And these are the children of Zibeon,.... The third son of Self, and who had two sons: both Ajah and Anah; of the latter it is observed: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father; who observed, while he was feeding his father's asses in the wilderness, that the he asses coupled with...
Sons of Seir, the Horite--native dukes, who were incorporated with those of the Edomite race.