# 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/jit/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.