And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Self,.... Along their coasts, by the borders of their country:through the way of the plain; the wilderness of Zin, where Kadesh was:from Elath and Eziongeber; the two ports on the shore of the Red sea in the land of Edom; it was from the latter they came to Kadesh; see Nu 33:35.
Elath was ten miles from Petra, the metropolis of Edom, to the east of it, as Jerom says ; it is by Josephus called Aelana, and by the Septuagint here Ailon; from whence the Elanitic bay has its name; he speaks of it as not far from Eziongeber, which he says was then called Berenice:we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab; the wilderness which is before Moab, towards the sun rising or the east, Nu 21:11.
De loc. Heb. fol. 91. E. Antiqu. l. 8. c. 6. sect.