Deuteronomy 1:2
Context1:2 Now it is ordinarily an eleven-day journey 1 from Horeb 2 to Kadesh Barnea 3 by way of Mount Seir. 4
Deuteronomy 1:19
Context1:19 Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the Lord our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.
Deuteronomy 2:14
Context2:14 Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them.
Deuteronomy 9:23
Context9:23 And when he 5 sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, “Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the Lord your God 6 and would neither believe nor obey him.


[1:2] 1 sn An eleven-day journey was about 140 mi (233 km).
[1:2] 2 sn Horeb is another name for Sinai. “Horeb” occurs 9 times in the Book of Deuteronomy and “Sinai” only once (33:2). “Sinai” occurs 13 times in the Book of Exodus and “Horeb” only 3 times.
[1:2] 3 sn Kadesh Barnea. Possibly this refers to àAin Qudeis, about 50 mi (80 km) southwest of Beer Sheba, but more likely to àAin Qudeirat, 5 mi (8 km) NW of àAin Qudeis. See R. Cohen, “Did I Excavate Kadesh-Barnea?” BAR 7 (1981): 20-33.
[1:2] 4 sn Mount Seir is synonymous with Edom. “By way of Mount Seir” refers to the route from Horeb that ended up in Edom Cf. CEV “by way of the Mount Seir Road”; TEV “by way of the hill country of Edom.”
[9:23] 5 tn Heb “the
[9:23] 6 tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord your God,” that is, against the commandment that he had spoken.