Numbers 20:17
“Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s highway. We will not turn away to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.”
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
18Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.”
Cross References
Numbers 21:22“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”
Deuteronomy 2:27“Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway. I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.
Deuteronomy 2:29as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me, until I pass over the Jordan into the land which the LORD our God gives us.”
Matthew Henry on Numbers 20:15-22
Ambassadors Sent to Edom. ( b. c. 1452.) 14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us: 15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers: 16 And when we cried unto the Lord , he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border: 17 Let us pass, I… Read the whole commentary →