And encamped by the Red Sea— Not by that part out of which they lately came, but more southerly, towards the Arabian desart. This station is omitted in Exodus, as well as those mentioned, Numbers 33:13 nothing very remarkable, it is supposed, having happened at those places.
Numbers 33:18-19. Pitched in Rithmah, &c.— This and the following stages are not mentioned in Exodus. Rithmah, from chap. Numbers 12:16 appears to have been in the wilderness of Paran, not far from Kadesh-barnea; and the other places seem to have been also in the same wilderness. Those who would see many bold conjectures upon this subject, will find them in Calmet on the place.