Numbers 20:18 (BSB)

But Edom answered, “You may not travel through our land, or we will come out and confront you with the sword.”

From Numbers 20. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 20:18

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 20:14-21: We have here the application made by Israel to the Edomites. The nearest way to Canaan from the place where Israel now lay encamped was through the country of Edom. Now, I. Moses sends ambassadors to treat with the king of Edom for leave to pass through his country, and gives them instructions what to say, Num 20:14-17. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 20:18: And the children of Israel said unto him,.... The messengers sent by the children of Israel made answer to the king of Edom: we will go by the highway; we desire no other favour but that of the public road; we propose not to go through any part of the country that is enclosed and cultivated, to do any damage to it: if I and...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 20:18-19: Num 20:18-19 The Edomites refused the visit of the Israelites in a most unbrotherly manner, and threatened to come out against them with the sword, without paying the least attention to the repeated assurance of the Israelitish messengers, that they would only march upon the high road, and would pay for water for themselves and their cattle.