Numbers 20:18

World English Bible (2000)

Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you."

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  • Num 20:19-21
    3 verses
    92%

    19The children of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then will I give its price: let me only, without [doing] anything [else], pass through on my feet."

    20He said, "You shall not pass through." Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.

    21Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.

  • Num 20:17
    87%

    17"Please let us pass through your land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border."

  • Judg 11:16-19
    4 verses
    82%

    16but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;

    17then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, 'Please let me pass through your land;' but the king of Edom didn't listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab; but he would not: and Israel stayed in Kadesh.

    18Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn't come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

    19Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, 'Please let us pass through your land to my place.'

  • Num 21:21-23
    3 verses
    79%

    21Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

    22"Let me pass through your land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed your border."

    23Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.

  • Deut 2:27-30
    4 verses
    78%

    27"Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.

    28You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet,

    29as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us."

    30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as at this day.

  • 2 Kgs 3:8
    78%

    8He said, "Which way shall we go up?" He answered, "The way of the wilderness of Edom."

  • Deut 2:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

    9Yahweh said to me, "Don't bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession."

  • Deut 2:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4Command the people, saying, 'You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;

    5don't contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.

  • Num 20:14
    73%

    14Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has happened to us:

  • Gen 33:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."

    15Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

  • Deut 2:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17that Yahweh spoke to me, saying,

    18"You are this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab:

  • 2 Kgs 3:26
    72%

    26When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.

  • Num 24:18
    72%

    18Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.

  • Gen 33:12
    72%

    12Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."

  • 2 Chr 20:10
    72%

    10Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and didn't destroy them;

  • Jer 49:17
    71%

    17Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.

  • Jer 25:21
    71%

    21Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;

  • 2 Kgs 8:20
    71%

    20In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

  • Exod 13:17
    71%

    17It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"

  • 2 Chr 25:19
    71%

    19You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?'"

  • Ezek 25:12
    70%

    12Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself on them;

  • 2 Kgs 3:20
    70%

    20It happened in the morning, about the time of offering the offering, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

  • Num 21:4
    70%

    4They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

  • Gen 32:17
    70%

    17He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'

  • Ps 60:9
    70%

    9Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom?

  • Deut 1:40
    70%

    40But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."

  • Ps 108:10
    70%

    10Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?

  • Josh 18:18
    70%

    18It passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah.

  • Exod 17:8
    69%

    8Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.