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 me pass through thy land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither unto the right hand nor to the left.

Wherefore

Deuteronomy 2:4
And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore;
Deuteronomy 23:7
Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a sojourner in his land.
Judges 11:18
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 came not within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

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