Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 21:22
Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink [of] the waters of the well: [but] we will go along by the king’s [high] way, until we be past thy borders.
22. the king’s way ] See on Num 20:17.
until we have passed through thy territory ] And similarly in the next verse.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
They spoke what they seriously intended and would have done, if he had given them quiet passage; but withal they knew that Sihon would not do it, and that he would withstand them, and that they should subdue him and take his land, as God had told them before they sent this message, as appears from Deu 2:21,26,27; and accordingly God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, for this end, that he might deliver him into Israels hand there, Num 21:31. And no wonder, for he and his people were Amorites, and therefore devoted to destruction, as all that people were.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Let me pass through thy land,…. Through some part of it, which would have been a shorter way to the river Jordan, over which Israel was to pass into the land of Canaan; the terms proposed, or things to be observed in their passage, which they would bind themselves strictly to, are the same that were made to the king of Edom. [See comments on Nu 20:17].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Num 21:22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink [of] the waters of the well: [but] we will go along by the king’s [high] way, until we be past thy borders.
Ver. 22. Let me pass. ] See Trapp on “ Num 20:17 “
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Num 20:17