Numbers 20:21 KJV — MannaFest

Numbers 20:21

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

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ASV

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

WEB

So Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through their territory, and Israel turned away from them.

YLT

and Edom refuseth to suffer Israel to pass over through his border, and Israel turneth aside from off him.

DBT

Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; and Israel turned away from him.

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Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.

Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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The Bronze SerpentThe Edom detour context that precedes the serpent plague.

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Judges 11:18
Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.
Deuteronomy 2:29
(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God giveth us.
Deuteronomy 2:27
Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
Judges 11:24
Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the Lord our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.
Deuteronomy 2:4–8
And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:

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Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, &c.--A churlish refusal obliged them to take another route. De 2:4; and Jud 11:18; see also 1Sa 14:47; 2Sa 8:14, which describe the retribution that was taken.)

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

It is a great mercy, to have plenty of water; a mercy which if we found the want of, we should own the worth of. Before the Lord - Suddenly, rather than to die such a lingering death. Their sin was much greater than that of their parents, because they should have taken warning by their miscarriages, and by the terrible effects of them, which their eyes had seen.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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