Numbers 20:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Wells, or pits, which any of you have digged for your private use, to wit, without paying for it, Numbers 20:19 Deuteronomy 2:6; but only of the waters of common rivers, which are free to all passengers, and will not be prejudicial to thee.

Numbers 20:17

17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.