John Gill Commentary Deuteronomy 2:8

"So we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab." — Deuteronomy 2:8 (ASV)

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 33:35Numbers 33:36) . Elath was ten miles from Petra, the metropolis of Edom, to the east of it, as Jerom says ^F26 ; it is by Josephus ^F1 called Aelana, and by the Septuagint here Ailon; from where 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, (Numbers 21:11) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F26: De loc. Heb. fol. 91. E.
• F1: Antiqu. l. 8. c. 6. sect. 4.