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Document Details : Title: The King's Highway, the Desert Highway, and Central Jordan's Kerak Plateau Author(s): MATTINGLY, Gerald Journal: ARAM Periodical Volume: 8 Issue: 1 Date: 1996 Pages: 89-99 DOI: 10.2143/ARAM.8.1.2002187 Abstract : According to the Book of Numbers, Moses sought permission from the Edomite and Amorite kings for the Hebrews to pass through their territories on the Transjordanian plateau, Num. 20:17 records Moses’ appeal to the king of Edom: “Now let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, neither will we drink water from a well; 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.”1The same appeal was made to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who ruled the region north of Wadi Mujib (the biblical Arnon): “Let me pass through your land; we will not turn aside into field or vineyard; we will not drink the water of a well; we will go by the King’s Highway, until we have passed through your territory” (21:22). |
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