Numbers 20:21 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 20:21

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

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John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Notwithstanding their near relation to each other, and the fair promises Israel made: wherefore Israel turned away from him: patiently bearing the refusal, and not resenting it; being ordered, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it, by the Word of heaven, not to make war with them, because the time was not yet come to take vengeance on Edom by their hands; and to the same purpose the Targum of Jerusalem.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְמָאֵ֣ן׀	vay.ma.'En	and it refused	H3985 →
אֱד֗וֹם	'e.Dom	Edom	H123 →
נְתֹן֙	ne.Ton	to permit	H5414 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
עֲבֹ֖ר	'a.Vor	to pass	H5674 →
בִּגְבֻל֑וֹ	big.vu.Lo	in territory its	H1366 →
וַיֵּ֥ט	vai.Yet	and it turned aside	H5186 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
מֵעָלָֽיו׃ פ	me.'a.Lav	from on <the> it	H5921 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Judges 11:24
Do you not possess whatever your god Chemosh grants you? So also, we possess whatever the LORD our God has granted us.
leads to
- Micah 4:5
  Though each of the peoples may walk in the name of his god, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
- Psalms 78:55
  He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
- Numbers 21:29
  Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.
- 1 Kings 11:7
  At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.
- Joshua 3:10
  He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
Through
Judges 11:18
Then Israel traveled through the wilderness and bypassed the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon.…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 2:1–8
  Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had instructed me, and for many days we wandered around Mount Seir.
- Numbers 21:4–13
  Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey
Through
Deuteronomy 2:27
“Let us pass through your land; we will stay on the main road. We will not turn to the right or to the left.
leads to
- Judges 11:19
  And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land into our own place.’

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