# Connecting Statement:

The messengers continue speaking to the king of Edom.

# We will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left

Here "turn aside" represents leaving the road. Alternate translation: "We will not leave the road in any direction" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])

# the king's highway

This is the main road that connects Damascus in the north to the Gulf of Aqabah in the south.