Numbers 20:15
How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
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And when we cried unto the Lord,.... By reason of their bondage, and to be delivered from it, Exo 2:24,
he heard our voice; their prayer to him, as the Targum of Jonathan, for help and deliverance,…
We have here the application made by Israel to the Edomites. The nearest way to Canaan from the place where Israel now lay encamped was through the country of Edom. Now,
I. Moses sends ambassadors to…
Permission to pass through Edom refused.
The Edomites occupied territory to the south of the Dead Sea, westward as far as Kadesh (Num 20:20) and southward as far as the eastern arm of the Red Sea…
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