Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border - Though every king has a right to refuse passage through his territories to any strangers; yet in a case like this, and in a time also in which emigrations were frequent and universally allowed, it was both cruelty and oppression in Edom to refuse a passage to a comparatively unarmed and inoffensive multitude, who were all their own near kinsmen. It appears however that it was only the Edomites of Kadesh that were thus unfriendly and cruel; for from Deuteronomy 2:29 we learn that the Edomites who dwelt in Mount Seir treated them in a hospitable manner. This cruelty in the Edomites of Kadesh is strongly reprehended, and threatened by the Prophet Obadiah, Obadiah 1:10, etc.

Kadesh

Numbers 20:1,14,16 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month...

Numbers 13:26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran...

Numbers 33:36,37 And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh...

Ezekiel 47:19 And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea...

Ezekiel 48:28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of strife in Kadesh...

Mount Hor. Mount Hor was situated in Arabia Petraea, on the confines of Edom. It is described by Burckhardt, as being situated on the western side of a valley called Wady Mousa; in which are found the ruins of the ancient Petra, and which is two long days' journey north-east of Accaba (on the northern point of the Elanitic Gulf of the Red Sea,) in the Djebel Shera, or Mount Seir, and on the east side of the Arabia, the valley which forms the continuation of that of the Jordan. On the summit of the mountain is the tomb of Haroun, or Aaron, which is held in great veneration by the Arabs; which agrees with the testimonies of Josephus, Eusebius, and Jerome, all persons well acquainted with these countries, who agree in proving that the sepulchre of Aaron, in Mount Hor, was near Petra. When visited by Mr. Legh, it was attended by a crippled Arab hermit, about

80 years of age, who conducted them into a small white building, crowned by a cupola, that contains the tomb of Aaron. The monument is of stone, about three feet high; and round the chamber where it stood were suspended beads, the votive offerings of the devotees.

Numbers 21:4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom...

Numbers 33:37,38 And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom...

Numbers 34:7 And this shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall point out for you mount Hor:

The Baptist's Inquiry and Jesus' Discourse Suggested Thereby.
(Galilee.) ^A Matt. XI. 2-30; ^C Luke VII. 18-35. ^c 18 And the disciples of John told him of all these things. ^a 2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent by his disciples ^c 19 And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them unto the Lord [John had been cast into prison about December, a.d. 27, and it was now after the Passover, possibly in May or June, a.d. 28. Herod Antipas had cast John into prison because John had reproved him for taking his brother's wife. …
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel