Deuteronomy 2:1
Then we went back, journeying into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea, as the Lord had said to me: and we were a long time going round Mount Seir.
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Numbers 21:4Then they went on from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, going round the land of Edom: and the spirit of the people was overcome with weariness on the way.
Deuteronomy 1:40But as for you, go back, journeying into the waste land by the way of the Red Sea.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 2:1
Moses, in this chapter, proceeds in the rehearsal of God's providences concerning Israel in their way to Canaan, yet preserves not the record of any thing that happened during their tedious march back to the Red Sea, in which they wore out almost thirty-eight years, but passes that over in silence as a dark time, and makes his narrative to begin again when they faced about towards Canaan ( ver. 1-3 ), and drew towards the countries that were inhabited, concerning which God here gives them direction, I. What… Read the whole commentary →