Numbers 21:4

World English Bible (2000)

They 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 6:9 : 9 Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
  • Judg 11:18 : 18 Then 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.
  • Num 33:41 : 41 They traveled from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.
  • Deut 1:40 : 40 But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."
  • Deut 2:5-8 : 5 don'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. 6 You shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.'" 7 For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing. 8 So 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.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.
  • 1 Thess 3:3-4 : 3 that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task. 4 For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
  • Num 14:25 : 25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."
  • Num 20:18-23 : 18 Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you." 19 The 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." 20 He said, "You shall not pass through." Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand. 21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him. 22 They traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor. 23 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,
  • Num 20:27 : 27 Moses did as Yahweh commanded: and they went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
  • Num 32:7 : 7 Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given them?
  • Num 32:9 : 9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 21:5
    79%

    5 The people spoke against God, and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread."

  • Deut 2:1
    78%

    1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days.

  • Num 20:20-23
    4 verses
    77%

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

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

    22 They traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.

    23 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,

  • Deut 1:40
    76%

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

  • Deut 1:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

    2 It is eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.

  • Deut 1:19
    75%

    19 We traveled from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

  • Judg 11:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

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

    17 then 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.

    18 Then 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.

  • Num 33:37
    75%

    37 They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.

  • Num 32:7-9
    3 verses
    74%

    7 Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given them?

    8 Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

    9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.

  • 2 Kgs 3:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

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

    9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey. There was no water for the army, nor for the animals that followed them.

  • Num 33:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.

    11 They traveled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

  • Deut 2:8
    73%

    8 So 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.

  • Deut 1:27
    73%

    27 and you murmured in your tents, and said, "Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

  • Num 20:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

    4 Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

  • Exod 13:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 It 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;"

    18 but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 14:11
    73%

    11 They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

  • Exod 16:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1 They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

    2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

    3 and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

  • Exod 13:20
    72%

    20 They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

  • Exod 17:1
    72%

    1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.

  • Num 20:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    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."

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

  • Num 11:35
    72%

    35 From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they stayed at Hazeroth.

  • Exod 15:22
    72%

    22 Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

  • Exod 17:3
    72%

    3 The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

  • Num 14:2
    71%

    2 All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

  • Ps 78:40
    71%

    40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

  • Num 20:14
    71%

    14 Moses 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:

  • Ps 107:5
    71%

    5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

  • Num 14:25
    71%

    25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."

  • Num 33:8
    70%

    8 They traveled from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.

  • Num 33:41
    70%

    41 They traveled from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.

  • Deut 9:22
    70%

    22 At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

  • Heb 3:17
    70%

    17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • Jer 2:6
    70%

    6 Neither did they say, 'Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?'

  • Deut 2:14
    70%

    14 The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.