Judges 11:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

When Israel came up from Egypt. — Compare with this narrative Numbers 20:21.

Walked through the wilderness. — In the second year of the wanderings (Deuteronomy 1:19).

Unto the Red sea.Numbers 14:25. The name for this sea in the Old Testament is Yam sooph, “the sea of weeds.” They reached Kadesh Barnea from Ezion Geber (“the Giant’s backbone”), in the Gulf of Akaba (Numbers 33:36).

To Kadesh.Numbers 20:1; Numbers 33:16.

Judges 11:16

16 But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;