1 06" Of Kadefh Barnea. 



Sinai and Kadejh, as they are particularly enumerated. Numb. 

 XXXIII. appear to be near twice as many ; in which they are 

 faid, with great Truth and Propriety, (7^^/. 107. 4..) to ha've 

 wanderedy in the Wlldernefs, out of the Way ; and in T)eut. 

 %. I. to have compaffed Mount Seir, rather than to have tra- 

 velled directly through it. 



^. Several other Texts of Scripture infinuate likewife that 

 Kade/Jj was at a much greater Diftance from Mount Sinai, 

 than this inconfiderable one of eight Hours. Thus in Deut. 

 I. 9. it isfaid, they departed from //cr6'^, through that great 

 and terrible Wildernefs, (which fuppofes both Time and Space.) 

 and came to Kadejh Barnea \ and in Chap. 9. xg. when the 

 Lord fent you from Kadejh Barnea to poJjTefs the Land. And 

 Chap. 7. II. — The [pace in which lue came from Kadefh Bar- 

 nea, untill we were come over the Brook Zered, wa-s thirty 

 and eight Tears. Numb. lo. 16. Kadefj, a City in the utter- 

 mo fl Tart of your Border, i.e. of Edom. And Chap. 15. x6. 

 Hither (to KadeJIS) the Spies returned from viewing the Land. 

 And T>eut. x. 3 . Te have compajfed this Mount long enough ; 

 turn ye Northward ; i. e. towards Kadefh or the Land oi Moab, 

 All which Texts feem to intimate that KadeJJj was (ituated upon 

 the molt advanced Part of Mount Seir, towards the Land of 

 Canaan ; and confequently, it was fo far from lying in the 

 Neighbourhood of, or at eight Hours Diftance only from,i7or6'^, 

 that it was their moft northern Station, before they turned 

 off to the N. E. towards the Land of Moab. 

 ■Eztongaher We come now to Eziongaber ' ; the Opprobrium Geogra- 

 hth:, but) ztphorum, as we may call it. Vov ^dricomius and Reland, who 

 DflZb. ' have wrote very copioufly upon the Sacred Geography, give 

 us as little Satisfadlion, with Regard to the true Situation of 

 Thisj as of moft other Places, that are the leaft attended with 

 Difficulties. Thefe they are fure to leave in the fame unfettled 

 and undetermined State, wherein they found them ; abound- 

 ing in Quotations, but fettling Nothing. Having therefore 

 no "Data or Footfteps to build upon, I was induced, from fome 

 Circumftances in the Hiftory of this Place, to fix Eziongaber 

 at Meenah el Dfahab or the Tort of Gold, {Trav. p. 35*6.) ten 



I Eziongaber is made by fome Authors to fignify the Back, Bone of a Man, from a Ridge 

 of Rocks, that lye behind it, which had fuch a Refembknce. St. Jerom, in fpeaking of 

 this Place, in his 127. Epiftle to Fabiola, interprets it Dgna Firi five Dolatmes bom'tnum ; — 

 and obferves, hucufque fol'ttudo Fharan. 



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