John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 2:8

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Self, etc.] Along their coasts, by the borders of their country: through the way of the plain; the wilderness of Zin, where Kadesh was: from Elath and Eziongeber; the two ports on the shore of the Red sea in the land of Edom; it was from the latter they came to Kadesh; (see <043335> Numbers 33:35,36). Elath was ten miles from Petra, the metropolis of Edom, to the east of it, as Jerom says f24; it is by Josephus f25 called Aelana, and by the Septuagint here Ailon; from whence the Elanitic bay has its name; he speaks of it as not far from Eziongeber, which he says was then called Berenice: we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab; the wilderness which is before Moab, towards the sun rising or the east, (<042111>Numbers 21:11).

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