Gen 14:7 | KD | STEP | From Aila the conquerors turned round, and marched (not through the Arabah, but on the desert plateau which they ascended from Aila) to En-mishpat ( well of judgment ), the older name of Kadesh , the situation of which, indeed, cannot be proved with certainty, but which is most probably to be sought for in the neighbourhood of the spring Ain Kades , discovered by Rowland , to the south of Bir Seba and Khalasa ( Elusa ), twelve miles E.S.E. of Moyle , the halting-place for caravans, near Hagar’s well ( ), on the heights of Jebel Halal (see Ritter, Erdkunde, and Num 13). “ And they smote all the country of the Amalekites, ” i.e., the country afterwards possessed by the Amalekites (vid., ), to the west of Edomitis on the southern border of the mountains of Judah (Num 13:29), “ and also the Amorites, who dwelt in Hazazon-Thamar, ” i.e., Engedi , on the western side of the Dead Sea ( ).

‏ Genesis 14:7

From Aila the conquerors turned round, and marched (not through the Arabah, but on the desert plateau which they ascended from Aila) to En-mishpat (well of judgment), the older name of Kadesh, the situation of which, indeed, cannot be proved with certainty, but which is most probably to be sought for in the neighbourhood of the spring Ain Kades, discovered by Rowland, to the south of Bir Seba and Khalasa (Elusa), twelve miles E.S.E. of Moyle, the halting-place for caravans, near Hagar’s well (Gen 16:14), on the heights of Jebel Halal (see Ritter, Erdkunde, and Num 13). “And they smote all the country of the Amalekites,” i.e., the country afterwards possessed by the Amalekites (vid., Gen 26:12), ^{▼▼The circumstance that in the midst of a list of tribes who were defeated, we find not the tribe but only the fields (שׂדה) of the Amalekites mentioned, can only be explained on the supposition that the nation of the Amalekites was not then in existence, and the country was designated proleptically by the name of its future and well-known inhabitants (Hengstenberg, Diss. ii. p. 249, translation).} to the west of Edomitis on the southern border of the mountains of Judah (Num 13:29), “and also the Amorites, who dwelt in Hazazon-Thamar,” i.e., Engedi, on the western side of the Dead Sea (2Ch 20:2).