Thematic Bible: Estimated the length of their journey by the number of days which it occupied
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So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. They made a circuit of seven days’ journey, but there was no water for the army or for the cattle that followed them.
It is [only] eleven days’ journey from Horeb (Mount Sinai) by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea [on Canaan’s border; yet Israel wandered in the wilderness for forty years before crossing the border and entering Canaan, the promised land].
So he took his relatives with him and pursued him for seven days, and they overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.