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Barnes' Notes on Deuteronomy 1:19

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Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · 19th-century historical commentary
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That great and terrible wilderness - Compare Deuteronomy 8:15. This language is such as people would employ after having passed with toil and suffering through the worst part of it, the southern half of the Arabah (see Numbers 21:4 note); and more especially when they had but recently rested from their marches in the plain of Shittim, the largest and richest oasis in the whole district on the Eastern bank near the mouth of the Jordan. return to 'Top of Page'
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