Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 1:2

2 (There are eleven days journey from Horeb , by the way of mount Seir , unto Kadesh▪ barnea .)

This is added to shew that the reason why the Israelites in so many years were advanced no further from Horeb, than to these plains, was not the great distance of the places or length of the way, which was but a journey of eleven days at most, but because of their rebellions, as is mentioned before and repeated in this book.

Or Sinai, the place where the Law was given which is promiscuously called by both those names.

Or Mount Edom, i. e. the mountainous Country of Seir, which was first possessed by the Horims, and afterwards by the Edomites, Deut. 2. 12.

Which was not far from the borders of Canaan. See Gen. 16. 14. Numb. 13. 26.