DESERT OF, a great and terrible wilderness” which the children of
Israel entered after leaving Mount Sinai, Num. x, 12; Deut. i, 19; and
in which thirty-eight of their forty years of wandering were spent. It
extended from Mount Sinai on the south, to the southern border of the
land of Canaan on the north; having the desert of Shur, with its
subdivisions, the deserts of Etham and Sin, on the west, and the eastern
branch of the Red Sea, the desert of Zin and Mount Seir, on the east.
Burckhardt represents this desert, which he entered from that of Zin, or
valley of El Araba, about the parallel of Suez, as a dreary expanse of
calcareous soil, covered with black flints.
Israel entered after leaving Mount Sinai, Num. x, 12; Deut. i, 19; and
in which thirty-eight of their forty years of wandering were spent. It
extended from Mount Sinai on the south, to the southern border of the
land of Canaan on the north; having the desert of Shur, with its
subdivisions, the deserts of Etham and Sin, on the west, and the eastern
branch of the Red Sea, the desert of Zin and Mount Seir, on the east.
Burckhardt represents this desert, which he entered from that of Zin, or
valley of El Araba, about the parallel of Suez, as a dreary expanse of
calcareous soil, covered with black flints.