Deuteronomy 1:44
44The Amorite inhabitants of that area ▼▼tn Heb “in that hill country,” repeating the end of v.
43.
confronted ▼▼tn Heb “came out to meet.”
you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah. ▼▼sn Hormah is probably Khirbet el-Meshash, 5.5 mi (9 km) west of Arad and 7.5 mi (12 km) SE of Beer Sheba. Its name is a derivative of the verb
חָרָם (
kharam, “to ban; to exterminate”). See
Num 21:3.