And they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
All Commentaries on Exodus 15:27 Go To Exodus 15
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Elim, to the north-west of Sinai. Shaw says there are now only nine fountains. (Haydock)
Strabo mentions a place of this description, five days' journey from Jericho, which was consecrated to the gods. (B. xvi. p. 511.) (Calmet)
We might here, (at the conclusion of the third age, according to those who call the deluge the first, and Abraham's call, the second,) pause, with Dr. Worthington, to take a view of the progress of the Church, and of the true doctrine, which has at all times been believed. But the attentive reader of the sacred text, and of these notes, will find this done to his hand almost in every page. Meditate upon these things. Take heed to thyself and to doctrine, be earnest in them, 1 Timothy iv. 15. The holy Job probably lived about this time, so that his book may serve to corroborate those truths, which were the objects of faith to some good men living among the Gentiles, as well as to the more favoured nation of the Jews. (Haydock)
