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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Deuteronomy 1:2 - 1:2
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There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb - Distances are computed in the East still by the hours or days occupiesd by the journey. A day’s journey on foot is about twenty miles - on camels, at the rate of three miles an hour, thirty miles - and by caravans, about twenty-five miles. But the Israelites, with children and flocks, would move at a slow rate. The length of the Ghor from Ezion-geber to Kadesh is a hundred miles. The days here mentioned were not necessarily successive days [Robinson], for the journey can be made in a much shorter period. But this mention of the time was made to show that the great number of years spent in travelling from Horeb to the plain of Moab was not owing to the length of the way, but to a very different cause; namely, banishment for their apostasy and frequent rebellions.
mount Seir - the mountainous country of Edom.