Deuteronomy 1:44

1:44 The Amorite inhabitants of that area ¹  confronted ²  you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah. ³ 

Deuteronomy 2:23

2:23 As for the Avvites ⁴  who lived in settlements as far west as Gaza, Caphtorites ⁵  who came from Crete ⁶  destroyed them and settled down in their place.)

Deuteronomy 3:10

3:10 all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead and Bashan as far as Salecah ⁷  and Edrei, ⁸  cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Deuteronomy 13:7

13:7 the gods of the surrounding people (whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth ⁹  to the other).

Deuteronomy 20:15

20:15 This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

Deuteronomy 21:2

21:2 your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse. ¹⁰ 

Deuteronomy 34:2-3

34:2 and all of Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the distant ¹¹  sea, 34:3 the Negev, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of the date palm trees, as far as Zoar.

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¹ tn Heb “in that hill country,” repeating the end of v. 43.

² tn Heb “came out to meet.”

³ 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.

⁴ sn Avvites. Otherwise unknown, these people were probably also Anakite (or Rephaite) giants who lived in the lower Mediterranean coastal plain until they were expelled by the Caphtorites.

⁵ sn Caphtorites. These peoples are familiar from both the OT (Gen 10:14; 1 Chr 1:12; Jer 47:4; Amos 9:7) and ancient Near Eastern texts (Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, 2:37-38; ANET 138). They originated in Crete (OT “Caphtor”) and are identified as the ancestors of the Philistines (Gen 10:14; Jer 47:4).

⁶ tn Heb “Caphtor”; the modern name of the island of Crete is used in the translation for clarity (cf. NCV, TEV, NLT).

⁷ sn Salecah. Today this is known as Salkhad, in Jordan, about 31 mi (50 km) east of the Jordan River in the Hauran Desert.

⁸ sn Edrei. See note on this term in 3:1.

⁹ tn Or “land” (so NIV, NCV); the same Hebrew word can be translated “land” or “earth.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “surrounding the slain [one].”

¹¹ tn Or “western” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); Heb “latter,” a reference to the Mediterranean Sea (cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).