And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
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Interpretation
Holiness is true honour, and the only way to everlasting honour.
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This thought runs through Deuteronomy 2:12-15.
Glossary
- Zered Place
- =Zared, luxuriance; willow bush, a brook or valley communicating with the Dead Sea near its southern extremity ( Num. 21:12 ; Deut. 2:14 ). It is called the “brook of the willows”. Modern identification: Wadi al Hasa.
- Kadesh-barnea Place
- Holy, or Kadesh-Barnea, sacred desert of wandering, a place on the south-eastern border of Palestine, about 165 miles from Horeb. It lay in the “wilderness” or “desert of Zin”. Modern identification: Ain el Qudeirat.