Note 7 — PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL.
Reading edition
Ailah was in the middle ages considered (Robinson, i., p. 252, and Lepsius' Tour, p. 20), as Elim, the sixth station of the Israelites after they passed the Red Sea. But I apprehend that the error very likely arose from the word Αἰλὰμ occurring in the Alexandrine MS., (2 Kings xvi. 6; and 2 Chron. viii. 17), for Αἰλὰθ, which is used in the LXX., in those verses. So Αἰλὰμ had here been mistaken for Αἰλεὶμ, Elim, the word which is found in Exodus, xvi. 1; of the LXX.