Numeri 20:14

Nova Vulgata

Misit nuntios Moyses de Cades ad regem Edom, qui dicerent: "Haec mandat frater tuus Israel: Nosti omnem laborem, qui apprehendit nos,

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Qui supra uxorem filiam, duxerit matrem ejus, scelus operatus est : vivus ardebit cum eis, nec permanebit tantum nefas in medio vestri.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Misit interea nuntios Moyses de Cades ad regem Edom, qui dicerent: Hæc mandat frater tuus Israël: Nosti omnem laborem qui apprehendit nos,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Moses: Judges 11:16, Judges 11:17

thy brother: Genesis 32:3, Genesis 32:4, Deuteronomy 2:4-25, Deuteronomy 23:7, Obadiah 1:10-12, Malachi 1:2

befallen us: Heb. found us, Exodus 18:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 25:23 - two manner Genesis 25:30 - Edom Genesis 36:1 - General Genesis 36:31 - the kings Genesis 36:43 - the dukes Exodus 15:15 - dukes Numbers 20:22 - Kadesh Numbers 21:21 - General Deuteronomy 32:51 - General Judges 11:12 - sent messengers 2 Kings 9:21 - met Jeremiah 49:7 - Edom Amos 1:11 - because

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom,.... This country was sometimes governed by kings, and sometimes by "dukes", see Genesis 36:14. At the time of the passage of the Israelites through the Red sea, we read of the dukes of Edom, Exodus 15:15, and here, thirty nine years after, of a king of Edom, but who he was is not certain. Bishop Usher takes him to be the same with Hadar, the last of the race of kings mentioned in Genesis 36:39, to him Moses sent messengers with a request, which follows after a preamble to it; who were the messengers is not said; the place from whence they were sent is Kadesh, a city on the borders of the land of Edom; but not Kadeshbarnea, Aben Ezra says, though some are of opinion it is the same, see Numbers 20:1:

thus saith thy brother Israel; the Israelites and Edomites springing from two men, Jacob and Esau, who were twin brothers, and is observed to ingratiate themselves to the Edomites, and gain their request, pleading relation to them:

thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us; what an uncomfortable condition they had been in for many years, which was well known to Edom, a neighbouring country, as is reasonable to suppose; since the fame of the children of Israel coming out of Egypt, passing through the Red sea, and being so long in the wilderness, was spread everywhere; this was said to move their pity.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the marginal reference. It appears from comparing Numbers 20:1 with Numbers 33:38, that the host must have remained in Kadesh some three or four months. No doubt time was required for re-organization. In order to gain the banks of Jordan by the shortest route they had to march nearly due east from Kadesh, and pass through the heart of the Edomite mountains. These are lofty and precipitous, traversed by two or three narrow defiles. Hence, the necessity of the request in Numbers 20:17.

Thy brother - An appeal to the Edomites to remember and renew the old kindnesses of Jacob and Esau Genesis 33:1-17.

It appears from Judges 11:17 that a similar request was addressed to the Moabites.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 20:14. Sent messengers - unto the king of Edom — Archbishop Usher supposes that the king now reigning in Edom was Hadar, mentioned Genesis 36:39.

Thus saith thy brother Israel — The Edomites were the descendants of Edom or Esau, the brother of Jacob or Israel, from whom the Israelites were descended.