the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Çölde Sayım 20:17
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Numbers 21:1, Numbers 21:22-24, Deuteronomy 2:1-4, Deuteronomy 2:27, Deuteronomy 2:29
Reciprocal: Genesis 24:49 - that I Genesis 27:39 - the fatness Deuteronomy 1:2 - by the way 2 Samuel 14:19 - turn 2 Chronicles 20:10 - whom thou
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country,.... That being the nearest and shortest way to the land of Canaan, from the place where they now were:
we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards; to harm them, and injure any man in his private property, by gathering the fruit of them, if the season of the year for it, or by trampling them down:
neither will we drink of the water of the wells; which private persons had dug, for the watering of their fields and vineyards, and for other uses, at least without paying for it; or only of the waters of the rivers, common to all passengers; from hence it appears, that the country of Edom was not then such a barren country as in later times, and as travellers c now report it is; :-
we will go by the king's highway; not the way in which the king used to walk, or which he should order them to walk in, as Aben Ezra; but the public roads, common to all his subjects, and travellers to walk in by his allowance; and such roads are now called by us the king's highway:
we will not turn to the right hand, or to the left; to do any injury to any person's property, but go straight forward:
until we have passed thy borders; from one to another, and got quite through the country.
c See Shaw's Travels, 4. 438. Ed. 2.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Numbers 20:17. We will go by the king's high-way — This is the first time this phrase occurs; it appears to have been a public road made by the king's authority at the expense of the state.
