And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
Ver. 19. That great and terrible wilderness.] Abounding with want of all necessities, Jer 2:6 and surrounded with many, mighty, and malicious enemies. Such is this present evil world to those that are bound for the heavenly Canaan. Many miseries and molestations, both Satanical and secular, they are sure to meet with, this world being a place of that nature, that, as it is reported of the Straits of Magellan, a which way soever a man bend his course, if homeward, he is sure to have the wind against him.
a Heyl., Geog., p. 802.