of Eziongaber. 107 



Leagues to the Southward oi Eloth. This^ in the Defcription Ez}ongai>er 

 of the Eafi\ is called, for Brevity's fake, (vvc may fuppofe /«'/^ i but) at 

 and not for Want of better Informationj) 'Dahah on\y, and not -d;^/^"^. 

 Meenah el 7)fahah ; a Circumftance, in the Appellation, too ma- 

 terial, either to be given up, or to be omitted in this Difquilition. 

 However whether it be fimply Dahah or Meenah el Dfahab % 

 as I received the Name from the Monks of Sinai, we are both 

 agreed, that it lyes at a Diftance from Elofh ; as indeed fome 

 Circumftances in the Scripture Hiftory, (i Kings g. z6. iChr. 

 8. 17.) feem to intimate Eziongaher to have done. 



But to the S. E. ofElana, (fays this Author, p. 15-7.) Ezion- 

 gaher feems to have heen^ the Tlains of that Tlace being men- 

 tioned after thofe ofAilath, when the Children of Ifraeljour- 

 7iied towards the Land of Tromife. Now, to this it may be 

 replyed ; (as it will appear, by expounding the Context, and 

 comparing one Part of it with another ;) 



I. That, the Poiition of thefe Plains, in this Dire6lion, one 

 after the other, was, with Refpedl only to their Station, at 

 Kadefj\ where {Dent. i. 46.) thej, are faid to have, abode 

 manyT>ays. Then, as the Hiftory is continued, {fDeut.i. i.) 

 we turned (to the Southward, from Kadefh and the Borders 

 of the Land of Tromife,) and took our Journey into the Wil- 

 dernefs by the Way of the Red Sea, (which at Kadefl^ lay at 

 fome Diftance from us ;) and we compaffed (or marched in an 

 irregular or winding manner, in thefe correfpondent Parts of) 

 Mount Seir, many Days, yindwhen (v. 8.) wepajfed by from 

 our Brethren, (or, after we had pafTed along or amongft our 

 Brethren) the Children ofEfau, which dwelt in Seir, through 

 the Way of {ox in theCourfe of our Journey, through) the Tlain 

 from Eloth and from Eziongaber, (travelling ftill to the South- 

 ward,) then we turned (back again to the Northward,) and 

 paffed by the Way of the Wildernefs ofMoab. This is other- 

 wife exprefled, by way of Trolepfis, at ver. g. Te have compajfed 

 this Mountain of Seir long enough, turn you Northward. Ezion- 

 gaber therefore could not lye betwixt Eloth and the Land of 

 Tromife ; but in a quite different Direction to what is afferted 

 by this Author. 



1 Three Days from the Convent, (of S'lnai^ tliey told me was Dahab, which fome People 

 have thought to be Ez.iongaber, becaufe of the Name, vi'hich fignifies Gold. p. 137. 



2 The Name oi Mtenah cl Dfahab islikewife confirmed by the Chryfanthine Map. 



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