Numbers 20:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him. ”

• Numbers 20:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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

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• Numbers 20:21 - 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...

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• Numbers 20:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  turned away. Compare Judges 11:18 ; Deuteronomy 2:4 ; Deuteronomy 2:5 .

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• Numbers 20:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him. Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border - Though every king has a right to refu...

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• Numbers 20:21 - 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 c...

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• Numbers 20:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him. Edom refused to give Israel ... - a churlish refusal obliged them to take another route, an...

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• Numbers 20:21 - 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 ye...

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• Numbers 20:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  SORROW AND FAILURE AT KADESH Numbers 20:1-29 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 disc...

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• Numbers 20:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Edom Refuses Passage; Aaron Dies Numbers 20:14-28 It was an ungracious act on the part of the Edomites-descendants of Esau, Jacob's brother-to forbid the passage of the chosen people through th...

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• Numbers 20:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We now reach the record of events at the close of the forty years. The people were again at Kadesh. Here Miriam died and was buried. A study of the district will show that perhaps the severest part o...

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• Numbers 20:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The Reader will recollect the relationship by nature between Israel and Edom. Israel sprung from Jacob, and Edom from Esau. One might have thought (speaking after the manner of men), that such affini...

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• Numbers 20:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 h...

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• Numbers 20:21 - L. 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...

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• Numbers 20:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Ambassadors Sent to Edom. B. C. 1452.       14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto th...

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• Numbers 20:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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, accordin...

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• Numbers 20:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  2). The Appeal to Edom ( Numbers 20:14-21 ). 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...

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• Numbers 20:21 - 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...

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• Numbers 20:21 - 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 argume...

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• Numbers 20:21 - 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....

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• Numbers 20:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE LAST MARCH : FROM KADESH TO HOR ( Numbers 20:1-4 ). Numbers 20:1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation. The latter words are emphatic...

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• Numbers 20:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Refusal of the Edomites to Grant Israel Passage.

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• Numbers 20:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 2:27 ; Deuteronomy 2:29 ; Deuteronomy 2:4-8 ; Deuteronomy 23:7 ; Judges 11:18 ; Judges 11:24

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