Judges 11:16

16 But when they came up out of Egypt, he walked through the desert to the Red Sea, and came into Cades.

Judges 11:16 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 11:16

But when Israel came up from Egypt
In order to go to the land of Canaan, which was higher than the land of Egypt, which lay low {k}:

and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea;
which is to be understood not of their walking to it; when they first came out of Egypt, they indeed then came to the edge of the wilderness of Etham, and so to the Red sea, and walked through it as on dry land, and came into the wilderness of Shur, Sin, and Sinai; and after their departure from Mount Sinai they came into the wilderness of Paran, in which they were thirty eight years; and this is the wilderness meant they walked through, and came to Eziongaber, on the shore of the Red sea, ( Numbers 33:35 )

and came to Kadesh;
not Kadeshbarnea, from whence the spies were sent, but Kadesh on the borders of Edom, from whence messengers were sent to the king of it, as follows.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 (cyamalov aiguptov) Theocrit. Idyll. 17. ver. 79.

Judges 11:16 In-Context

14 And Jephte again sent word by them, and commanded them to say to the king of Ammon:

15 Thus saith Jephte: Israel did not take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:

16 But when they came up out of Egypt, he walked through the desert to the Red Sea, and came into Cades.

17 And he sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying: Suffer me to pass through thy land. But he would not condescend to his request. He sent also to the king of Moab, who, likewise, refused to give him passage. He abode, therefore, in Cades,

18 And went round the land of Edom at the side, and the land of Moab: and came over against the east coast of the land of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon: and he would not enter the bounds of Moab.