Deuteronomy 2:1
Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
2And the LORD spake unto me, saying,
Cross References
Numbers 21:4And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
Deuteronomy 1:40But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to 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 →