Deuteronomy 2:1
And we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as Jehovah had said unto me; and we went round mount Seir many days.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2And Jehovah spoke to me, saying,
Cross References
Numbers 21:4And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to go round the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became impatient on the way;
Deuteronomy 1:40But ye, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness 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 →