THe way of the spies] By that way which the spies (which searched the land in the second yeare of their journeying from Eygpt, that is, thirty eight yeares before this time:) some understand it of the way which King Arad had sent spies to see which way Israel would goe, who (by intelligence) had learned that they were returned from the Red Sea: See Chap. 33. 40.