“Then Israel sent messengers vnto the king of Edom saying, Let me, I pray thee, passe through thy land. But the king of Edom would not hearken thereto: And in like maner they sent vnto the king of Moab: but hee would not consent: & Israel abode in Kadesh.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
11:17 Abode - Peaceably, and did not revenge their unkindness as they could have done.