Numbers 20:21

New Century Version

The Edomites refused to let them pass through their country, so the Israelites turned back.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:10

“But now here are men from Ammon, Moab, and Edom. You wouldn’t let the Israelites enter their lands when the Israelites came from Egypt. So the Israelites turned away and did not destroy them.

Numbers 21:23

But King Sihon would not let the Israelites pass through his country. He gathered his whole army together, and they marched out to meet Israel in the desert. At Jahaz they fought the Israelites.

Numbers 21:4

The Israelites left Mount Hor and went on the road toward the Red Sea, in order to go around the country of Edom. But the people became impatient on the way

Deuteronomy 2:27

“If you let us pass through your country, we will stay on the road and not turn right or left.

Deuteronomy 2:29

The descendants of Esau in Edom let us go through their land, and so did the Moabites in Ar. We want to cross the Jordan River into the land the Lord our God has given us.”

Deuteronomy 23:7

Don’t hate Edomites; they are your close relatives. Don’t hate Egyptians, because you were foreigners in their country.

Judges 11:17

Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Let the people of Israel go across your land.’ But the king of Edom refused. We sent the same message to the king of Moab, but he also refused. So the Israelites stayed at Kadesh.

Judges 11:18

“Then the Israelites went into the desert around the borders of the lands of Edom and Moab. Israel went east of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon River, the border of Moab. They did not cross it to go into the land of Moab.

Judges 11:24

Take the land that your god Chemosh has given you. We will live in the land the Lord our God has given us!