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 go through your land: I will keep to the highway, not turning to the right or to the left;

Wherefore

Deuteronomy 2:4
And give the people orders, saying, You are about to go through the land of your brothers, the children of Esau, who are living in Seir; and they will have fear of you; so take care what you do:
Deuteronomy 23:7
But have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your brother, or for an Egyptian, for you were living in his land.
Judges 11:18
Then he went on through the waste land and round the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon; they did not come inside the limit of Moab, for the Arnon was the limit of Moab.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain