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The ancient Hebrews, who later became the Israelites, had a plethora of enemies throughout their history. Of course the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Babylonians are the best known and were the most powerful of their enemies, but they had numerous other foes. The Philistines were their primary enemy when the Kingdom of Israel was being created and the Neo-Hittites were a common enemy at the height of their power. The Edomites, though, hold the distinction of being the enemy of the Hebrews <i>and</i> the Israelites from the earliest time of Hebrew history in the Bronze Age until the Kingdom of Judah was destroyed by the Neo-Babylonian Empire in the sixth century BC.