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
I will pass over in thy land.; in the way, in the way I will go, I will not turn aside to the right or to the left.

Wherefore

Deuteronomy 2:4
And command the people, saying, Ye are passing over through the bound of your brethren the sons of Esau, dwelling in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: and ye shall watch greatly.
Deuteronomy 23:7
Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian' for thou wert a stranger in his land.
Judges 11:18
And he will go into the wilderness, and he will encompass the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and he will come from the rising of the sun to the land of Moab, and they will encamp beyond Arnon; and they went not in to the bound of Moab, for Arnon is the bound of Moah