Numbers 20:17

Easy To Read Version

Please let us travel through your country. We will not travel through any fields or vineyards. We will not drink water from any of your wells. We will travel only along the King’s Road. We will not leave that road to the right or to the left. We will stay on the road until we have traveled through your country.”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:10

“But now, here are men from Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir! You would not let the people of Israel enter their lands when the people of Israel came out of Egypt. {\cf2\super [228]} So the people of Israel turned away and didn’t destroy those people.

Numbers 21:1

The Canaanite king of Arad lived in the Negev. [275] He heard that the people of Israel were coming on the road to Atharim. So the king went out and attacked the people of Israel. Arad captured some of the people and made them prisoners.

Deuteronomy 2:27

‘Let us go through your land. We will stay on the road. We will not turn off the road to the right or to the left.

Deuteronomy 2:28

We will pay you in silver for any food we eat or any water we drink. We only want to march through your country.

Deuteronomy 2:29

Let us go through your land until we go across the Jordan River into the land that the Lord our God is giving us. Other people have let us go through their land—the people of Esau living in Seir and the Moabite people living in Ar.’