They were like their brethren of Edom, who, though they came to Egypt seeking pasturage for their cattle, had nevertheless founded at home an elective monarchy.

The true Bedawin of the Old Testament are the Amalekites, and between the Israelite and the Amalekite there was the difference that there is between the peasant and the gypsy.

The fact is important, and the forgetfulness of it has led more than one historian astray.
The first attempt to invade Canaan failed.

It was made from the south, from the shelter of the block of mountains within which stood the sanctuary of Kadesh-barnea.

The Israelitish forces were disastrously defeated at Zephath, the Hormah of later days, and the invasion of the Promised Land was postponed.