King James Version
Numbers 20:21 in the King James Version says “Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.”
Numbers 20:21 · KJV
And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.
And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
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“Thus Edom”
H123edom, the elder twin-brother of jacob; hence the region (idumaea) occupied by him
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“passage”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
“through his border”
H1366properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e., (by implication) a boundary; by extension the territory inclosed
“turned away”
H5186to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
“Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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