Numbers 20:21

Easy To Read Version

{The king of} Edom refused to let the people of Israel travel through his country. And the people of Israel turned around and went another way.

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 21:23

But King Sihon would not allow the people of Israel to travel through his country. The king gathered together his army and marched out to the desert. He was marching to fight against the people of Israel. At Jahaz, the king’s army fought against the people of Israel.

Numbers 21:4

The people of Israel left Mount Hor and traveled on the road that goes to the Red Sea. They did this to go around the country of Edom. But the people became impatient.

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 2:29

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.’

Deuteronomy 23:7

“You must not hate an Edomite. Why? Because he is your relative. You must not hate an Egyptian. Why? Because you were a stranger in his land.

Judges 11:17

The Ammonite people gathered together for war. Their camp was in the area of Gilead. The people of Israel gathered together. Their camp was at the city of Mizpah.

Judges 11:18

The leaders of the people living in the area of Gilead said, “Whoever leads us in the attack against the people of Ammon will become the head of all the people living in Gilead.”

Judges 11:24

Surely you can live in the land which Chemosh [98] your god has given to you. So we will live in the land that the Lord our God has given to us!