2 Samuel 15:28

28. I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness This could be none other than the plain of Jericho. 2 Kings 25:5. But the text reads עברית , which in the singular is rendered, 2 Samuel 19:18, a ferry-boat; and it is best to regard the plural, both here and in 2 Samuel 17:16, as equivalent to מעברות , crossing places, or fords. The crossing places of the desert would be the fords of the Jordan, which were on the eastern border of the desert. Furst renders it, in the outermost sides of the steppe.