Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

Refused

Deuteronomy 2:27
‘Let us travel through your land; we will keep strictly to the highway. We will not turn to the right or the left.

Wherefore

Deuteronomy 2:4
Command the people: You are about to travel through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so you must be very careful.
Deuteronomy 23:7
Do not despise an Edomite, because he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you were a foreign resident in his land.
Judges 11:18
“Then they traveled through the wilderness and around the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon but did not enter into the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.

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