en_tn_condensed/num/20/17.md

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.