Genesis 14:6 - Exposition

And the Horites . Literally, dwelling in caves ; from char, a cave. In their mount Seir. Literally, wooded (Gesenius); hairy (Furst); rugged (Lange); probably with reference to the thick brushwood and forests that grew upon its sides. The cave men of Seir were the earlier inhabitants of the region lying between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Elam, afterwards taken possession of by the Edomites ( Deuteronomy 2:12 ; Jeremiah 49:16 ; Obadiah 1:3 , Obadiah 1:4 ). Unto El-paran I .e. the oak or terebinth of Paran. Which is by the wilderness . Between the land of Edom and the fertile country of Egypt, and to the southward of Palestine, identified as the plateau of the Tîh , across which the Israelitish march lay from Sinai.