Genesis 14:6

the Horites Mentioned also in Genesis 36:20-21; Genesis 36:30, and in Deuteronomy 2:12; Deuteronomy 2:22, where they are described as having been dispossessed of the country of Seir, the hill country between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Elath, by the Edomites. They have been thought to represent primitive "cave-dwellers," of whom traces have been discovered by Macalister at Gezer.

unto El-paran Generally identified with the town of Elath, the well-known port at the head of the Gulf of Akabah; which is sometimes called the "Aelanitic Gulf" from the name Ailanagiven to Elathin classical writings. The town may have derived its name from great palm trees in the neighbourhood (El= "a great tree").

the wilderness The Wilderness of Paran (cf. Genesis 21:21) between the Gulf of Akabah and the borders of Egypt.