Numbers 20:17

God's Word

Please let us go through your country. We won’t go through any of your fields or vineyards, or drink any of the water from your wells. We’ll stay on the king’s highway and never leave it until we’ve passed through your territory.”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:10

“The Ammonites, Moabites, and the people of Mount Seir have come here. However, you didn’t let Israel invade them when they came out of Egypt. The Israelites turned away from them and didn’t destroy them.

Numbers 21:1

When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that the Israelites were coming on the road to Atharim, he fought them and took some of them as prisoners.

Deuteronomy 2:27

“If you allow us to travel through your country, we’ll go straight through and won’t ever leave the road.

Deuteronomy 2:28

We’ll pay you in silver for the food we eat and the water we drink. Please let us go through,

Deuteronomy 2:29

as the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, did for us. We’ll keep going until we cross the Jordan River into the land the Lord our God is giving us.”