The wilderness of Paran, says Dr. Wells, seems to have been taken in a larger, and in a stricter sense. In the larger sense, it seems to have denoted all the desert and mountainous tract, lying between the wilderness of Shur westward, and mount Seir, or the land of Edom, eastward, the land of Canaan northward, and the Red sea southward. And in this sense, it seems to have comprehended the wilderness of Sin, and the wilderness of Sinai, also the adjoining tract wherein lay Kibroth-hattaavah and Hazeroth. In this sense it may be understood in De.

Numbers 1:19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

, where, by 'that great and terrible wilderness,' is intended the wilderness of Paran in its largest acceptation; for, in its stricter acceptation, it seems not to have been so great and terrible a wilderness' but is taken to denote more peculiarly that part of Arabia Petraea which lies between mount Sinai and Hazeroth west, and mount Seir east.

Numbers 12:16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 32:8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.

Deuteronomy 1:19,23 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness...

Deuteronomy 9:23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you...