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Deuteronomy 1:2

Deuteronomy 1:2
( There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

There are eleven days' journey from Horeb, by the way of Mount Seir, to Kadeshbarnea. Not that the Israelites came thither in eleven days from Horeb, for they stayed by the way at Kibrothhattaavah, a…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Deuteronomy 1:1-2

These verses are prefixed as a connecting link between the contents of the preceding books and that of Deuteronomy now to follow. The sense of the passage might be given thus: “The discourses of Moses…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Deuteronomy 1:1-8

We have here, I. The date of this sermon which Moses preached to the people of Israel. A great auditory, no question, he had, as many as could crowd within hearing, and particularly all the elders and…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

It is eleven days", etc.] The distance from the accepted position of Ḥoreb-Sinai to that of Ḳadesh, -Ain Ḳudeis, is -10 or 11 days of common camel-riding" (C. Trumbull K. B.71, 215): caravans with…