circuit. It does not have the sense of a complete circuit unless further qualified. A good example of its use is found in Ezekiel 47:2, where Ezekiel goes around the temple from the north gate to the east gate. The location that Israel is to go around is identified as “Mount Seir.” This does not refer to the historical heartlands of the Edomites, the mountains east of the Arabah. Rather, it is a location on the west of the Arabah, in the southern Negev. The biblical texts identify the original inhabitants