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John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

Numbers 20:21

Ver. 21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his country,.... Notwithstanding their near relation to each other, and the fair promises Israel made:

wherefore Israel turned away from him: patiently bearing the refusal, and not resenting it; being ordered, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it, by the Word of heaven, not to make war with them, because the time was not yet come to take vengeance on Edom by their hands; and to the same purpose the Targum of Jerusalem.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Numbers 20:21. _THUS EDOM REFUSED TO GIVE ISRAEL PASSAGE THROUGH HIS_ _BORDER_] Though every king has a right to refuse passage through his territories to any strangers; yet in a case like this...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAELS ABORTIVE APPEAL TO EDOM (JE). Israel's desire to cross Edom was due to the wish to attack Canaan on the E. instead of on the S., where they had met with defeat (Numbers 14:45). As Kadesh was W...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TURNED AWAY. Compare Judges 11:18; Deuteronomy 2:4; Deuteronomy 2:5....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Permission to pass through Edom refused_. The Edomites occupied territory to the south of the Dead Sea, westward as far as Kadesh (Numbers 20:16) and southward as far as the eastern arm of the Red S...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THUS EDOM REFUSED TO GIVE ISRAEL PASSAGE— Grotius censures this conduct of the Edomites, as contrary to equity and the law of nations; by which the highways, as well as the seas and rivers of all coun...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. PASSAGE REFUSED THROUGH EDOM vv. 14-21 TEXT Numbers 20:14. And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befalle...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DEATH OF MIRIAM. MURMURING AT MERIBAH. DEATH OF AARON 1. Miriam dies while the people are at Kadesh (see on Numbers 13:21; Numbers 13:26). The first month is the first month of the fortieth year. As t...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְמָאֵ֣ן ׀ אֱדֹ֗ום נְתֹן֙ אֶת ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    SORROW AND FAILURE AT KADESH Numbers 20:1 THERE is a mustering at Kadesh of the scattered tribes, for now the end of the period of wandering approaches, and the generation that has been disciplined i...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel (k) turned away from him. (k) To pass by another way....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; wherefore Israel turned away from him. The Lord had them change their proposed itinerary, probably because He did not want to have the peop...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Refusal of the Edomites to Grant Israel Passage....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    MOSES DISOBEDIENT BECAUSE PROVOKED (vs.1-13) Journeying again, the congregation came to the wilderness of ZIN and stopped at Kadesh, where Miriam died and was buried. The forty years of wandering ha...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-21 The nearest way to Canaan from the place where Israel encamped, was through the country of Edom. The ambassadors who were sent returned with a denial. The Edomites feared to receive damage by t...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THROUGH HIS BORDER, but permitted them to go by their border, DEUTERONOMY 2:4,8 JUD 11:18, and furnished them with victuals for their money, DEUTERONOMY 2:29. ISRAEL TURNED AWAY, according to God's co...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin, in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there." Verse 1. The c...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 20:21 Edom H123 refused H3985 (H8762) give H5414 (H8800) Israel H3478 passage H5674 (H8800) territory...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    2). THE APPEAL TO EDOM (NUMBERS 20:14). The incident at Meribah was followed by an appeal to Edom to be allowed to use the King's Highway through their territory. Compare here Deuteronomy 2:4. The mar...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Water from the rock and Moses' sin. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Miriam, Eleazar, King of Edom. CONCLUSION: God is able to supply His people with necessaries even in their greatest strai...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Numbers 20:1. _The desert of Zin._ Critics are not agreed whether this was the same wilderness, and the same Kadesh to which the people arrived on the eighth journey after leaving Egypt. The arguments...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border._ A reasonable request, and an ungenerous refusal:-- I. A reasonable request. 1. Reasonable in itself. 2. Urged by forcible reasons. (1) Th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 20:1 Marching from Kadesh to the Plains of Moab. After nearly 40 years of aimless wandering in the wilderness, Israel is ready to enter the Land of Promise. Most of the older g...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 20:14__ YOUR BROTHER ISRAEL. Esau (Edom) was the twin brother of Jacob (Israel); see Genesis 25:24. The Edomites were therefore the

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 20:17 THE KING’S HIGHWAY is the main trade route from Damascus to Arabia, passing through Edom in the high hills southeast of the Dead Sea. Israel wanted to travel north along...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES We now enter upon the narrative of the third and last stage of the journey of Israel from Sinai to the Promised Land: this narrative is given in this and the following c...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE LAST MARCH: FROM KADESH TO HOR (Numbers 20:1). NUMBERS 20:1 THEN CAME THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, EVEN THE WHOLE CONGREGATION. T

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter twenty records the verse, the death of Miriam, the sister of Moses. And she died there in Kadesh the desert of sin and was buried. And there was no water for the congregation: and they gather...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 2:27; Deuteronomy 2:29; Deuteronomy 2:4; Deuteronomy 23:7;...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    How could this verse say that Israel went around Edom when Deuteronomy 2:4 says they passed through it? PROBLEM: God would not allow Israel to do battle with the Edomites because He had given the land...

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