John Gill Commentary Numbers 20:22

"And they journeyed from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came unto mount Hor." — Numbers 20:22 (ASV)

And the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation,
journeyed from Kadesh Not directly, but after they had continued there some time, and had furnished themselves with provisions for their journey, which they bought of the Edomites, see (Judges 11:17), the whole congregation is observed to journey from hence, not one of them being lost by the king of Edom's coming out against them; these went out complete and perfect, safe and sound:

and came unto Mount Hor ; which, according to Bunting ^F6, was forty eight miles from Kadesh; this did not have its name from the Horim or Horites, nor they from it, their name being written with a different letter. It came instead from Harar, a mountain, for the word itself signifies a mountain; wherefore it may be rendered, "a mountain of the mountain", which Jarchi interprets a mountain on the top of a mountain.

Josephus says, that here stood a city, formerly called Arce, since Petra, surrounded with an high mountain, where Aaron went and died; and Pliny says ^F8 of Petra, that it is encompassed with inaccessible mountains.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F6: Travels of the Patriarchs p. 83.
• F8: Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 28.