Numbers 20:21
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
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Gill's Exposition
And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh,.... Not directly, but after they had continued there some time, and had furnished themselves with provisions for their…
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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