Numbers 20:21

Good News Translation

Because the Edomites would not let the Israelites pass through their territory, the Israelites turned and went another way.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:10

“Now the people of Ammon, Moab, and Edom have attacked us. When our ancestors came out of Egypt, you did not allow them to enter those lands, so our ancestors went around them and did not destroy them.

Numbers 21:23

But Sihon would not permit the people of Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered his army and went out to Jahaz in the wilderness and attacked the Israelites.

Numbers 21:4

The Israelites left Mount Hor by the road that leads to the Gulf of Aqaba, in order to go around the territory of Edom. But on the way the people lost their patience

Deuteronomy 2:27

‘Let us pass through your country. We will go straight through and not leave the road.

Deuteronomy 2:29

until we cross the Jordan River into the land that the Lord our God is giving us. The descendants of Esau, who live in Edom, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, allowed us to pass through their territory.’

Deuteronomy 23:7

“Do not despise the Edomites; they are your relatives. And do not despise the Egyptians; you once lived in their land.

Judges 11:17

Then they sent messengers to the king of Edom to ask permission to go through his land. But the king of Edom would not let them. They also asked the king of Moab, but neither would he let them go through his land. So the Israelites stayed at Kadesh.

Judges 11:18

Then they went on through the desert, going around the land of Edom and the land of Moab until they came to the east side of Moab, on the other side of the Arnon River. They camped there, but they did not cross the Arnon because it was the boundary of Moab.

Judges 11:24

Are you going to try to take it back? You can keep whatever your god Chemosh has given you. But we are going to keep everything that the Lord, our God, has taken for us.