| Geneva Study Bible (There are eleven days' journey from {c} Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.) (c) In Horeb, or Sinai, forty years before the law was given: but because all that were then of age and judgment were now dead, Moses repeats the same to the youth who either then were not born, or had not judgment. Wesley's Notes 1:2 There are eleven days journey - This is added to shew that the reason why the Israelites, in so many years were advanced no farther from Horeb, than to these plains, was not the distance of the places but because of their rebellions. Kadesh - barnea - Which was not far from the borders of Canaan. Scofield Reference Notes Margin eleven days Prolonged by one act of unbelief to forty years. See Scofield Note: "Num 14:23". Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 2. There are eleven days' journey from Horeb-Distances are computed in the East still by the hours or days occupiesd by the journey. A day's journey on foot is about twenty miles-on camels, at the rate of three miles an hour, thirty miles-and by caravans, about twenty-five miles. But the Israelites, with children and flocks, would move at a slow rate. The length of the Ghor from Ezion-geber to Kadesh is a hundred miles. The days here mentioned were not necessarily successive days [Robinson], for the journey can be made in a much shorter period. But this mention of the time was made to show that the great number of years spent in travelling from Horeb to the plain of Moab was not owing to the length of the way, but to a very different cause; namely, banishment for their apostasy and frequent rebellions. mount Seir-the mountainous country of Edom. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 1:1-8 Moses spake to the people all the Lord had given him in commandment. Horeb was but eleven days distant from Kadesh-barnea. This was to remind them that their own bad conduct had occasioned their tedious wanderings; that they might the more readily understand the advantages of obedience. They must now go forward. Though God brings his people into trouble and affliction, he knows when they have been tried long enough. When God commands us to go forward in our Christian course, he sets the heavenly Canaan before us for our encouragement. | 
