Numbers 14:43
14:43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.”
Numbers 14:45
14:45 So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped 1 down and attacked them 2 as far as Hormah. 3
1 tn Heb “came down.”
2 tn The verb used here means “crush by beating,” or “pounded” them. The Greek text used “cut them in pieces.”
3 tn The name “Hormah” means “destruction”; it is from the word that means “ban, devote” for either destruction or temple use.