Numbers 20:20

And he said, Thou shalt not pass through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.

In Context

19And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go up by the highway: and if we drink of thy water, I and my cattle, then will I give the price thereof: let me only, without doing any thing else, pass through on my feet.

21Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

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Cross References

Genesis 27:41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

Numbers 20:18And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against thee.

Judges 11:20But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

Ezekiel 35:5Because thou hast had a perpetual enmity, and hast given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end:

Obadiah 1:10For the violence done to thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

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 →

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