John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:8
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 Numbers 33:35 . Elath was ten miles from Petra, the metropolis of Edom, to the east of it, as Jerom says F26 De loc. Heb. fol. 91.... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:8-23
It is observable here that Moses, speaking of the Edomites (Deut. 2:8), calls them, ?our brethren, the children of Esau.? Though they had been unkind to Israel, in refusing them a peaceable passage through their country, yet he calls them brethren. For, though our relations fail in their duty to us, we must retain a sense of the relation, and not be wanting in our duty to them, as there is occasion. Now in these verses we have, I. The account which Moses gives of the origin of the nations of... read more