Add parallel Print Page Options

44 The Amorite inhabitants of that area[a] confronted[b] you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah.[c]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 1:44 tn Heb “in that hill country,” repeating the end of v. 43.
  2. Deuteronomy 1:44 tn Heb “came out to meet.”
  3. Deuteronomy 1:44 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.