Photo: View from el-Kerak on the "King's highway" (Num 20:17; 21:22) toward the west. Photo: Ernst Jenni 1957.

Inset image: Biblia hebraica cum optimis […] codicibus […] collata […]. Notis Keri & Ktibh instructa, ac latinis summariis illustrata, studio & opera Henrici Opitii, Kiel 1709. Frey-Grynäisches Institut, Basel (Frey-Gryn A III 7). Photo: Anja Preiswerk 2018. The text includes Num 21:22: "We will go by the King's Highway until we have passed through your territory."