Verse 19
19. The high way A causeway or raised way, as the single term signifies in the Hebrew. It is the same as the king’s way in Numbers 20:17, and was probably a road used for military purposes. See Matthew 3:3, note. The Seventy render it, “We will pass along the mountains.”
Water… pay for Says Dr. Thomson: “Water is often difficult to be had either for love or money. A friend of mine informed me, that passing through a part of the country east of the Jordan in the autumn, he could barely secure water absolutely necessary for his animals; and the article was so precious that all washing, even of his own face, was dispensed with for several days.”
Go through on my feet The Vulgate, “Only let us go through swiftly.” They would make no encampment nor incur needless delay.
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