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12 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because ayou did not believe Me, to bhallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”  
13 aThis was the water of1 Meribah, because the children of Israel contended with the Lord, and He was hallowed among them.  

Passage Through Edom Refused

14 aNow Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of bEdom. c“Thus says your brother Israel: ‘You know all the hardship that has befallen us,  
15 ahow our fathers went down to Egypt, band we dwelt in Egypt a long time, cand the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.  
16 aWhen we cried out to the Lord, He heard our voice and bsent the Angel and brought us up out of Egypt; now here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your border.  
17 Please alet us pass through your country. We will not pass through fields or vineyards, nor will we drink water from wells; we will go along the King’s Highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.’ ”  
18 Then aEdom said to him, “You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you with the sword.”  
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Numbers 20:14-21

Edom was next on God's list. Edom lay to the south east of the southern tip of the Dead Sea, and it was one of the three trans-Jordan kingdoms, that included Moab and Ammon. Edom's crime was that he pursued his brother, and his anger never diminished, but raged continually. God hates this. Edom or Esau was the twin brother of Jacob, thus Edom and Israel had close ethnic ties. And yet when Israel wished to pass on their way to the Promised land through Edom, in Numbers 20:14-21, paying them for whatever, Edom refused them, and came out against them with a great army. Their greatest act of hate and hostility against Israel is seen in 587 BC by Nebuchadnezzar. At that time the Edomites gloated over the destruction of their enemies and hindered the escape of those fleeing, and delivered them over into the captive's hands. You can read about this in Obadiah 10-14, it is a very sad and touching story. Teman and Bozrah were to be destroyed. These two cities represented the whole country, and God was going to teach them a lesson, and it was a painful suffering lesson.

Excerpted from Love Thy Neighbor

Numbers 20:14-16

I think that in this case it was Jesus Christ who was doing this, but He is identified as an Angel.

Excerpted from Hebrews (Part Seven): Greater Than Angels



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