Exodus 18:5 - Exposition

The wilderness . This term, which has the article, seems to be here used in that wide sense with which we are familiar from Exodus 3:18 ; Exodus 4:27 ; Exodus 5:3 ; Exodus 7:16 ; etc. It is not" the wilderness of Sin," or "the wilderness of Sinai," that is intended, but generally the tract between Egypt and Palestine. Jethro, having entered this tract from Midian, had no difficulty in discovering from the inhabitants that Moses was encamped at the mount of God ,— i.e; Sinai, and there sought and found him. There is no trace of any previous "engagement" to meet at a particular spot.