NUMBERS—NOTE ON Numbers 20:17 The King’s Highway is the main trade route from Damascus to Arabia, passing through Edom in the high hills southeast of the Dead Sea. Israel wanted to travel north along this road. But the Edomites refused to let them pass through their territory, so Israel turned away. Apparently they headed south toward the Gulf of Aqaba (Numbers 21:4) and then northward through the wilderness east of the King’s Highway (see Deuteronomy 2:1).

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