5 Mosebok 1:44

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Och amoréerna som bodde där i bergsbygden drogo mot eder och jagade eder, såsom bin göra, och slogo och förskingrade eder i Seir och drevo eder ända till Horma.

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  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

chased you: When bees are provoked or disturbed, the whole swarm attack and pursue whatever annoys them, with great courage and fury, and sometimes are a most formidable enemy. They were so troublesome in some districts of Crete, that, according to Pliny, the inhabitants were actually compelled to forsake their homes. Alian reports, that some places in Scythia were formerly inaccessible on account of the numerous swarms of bees with which they were infested. Mr. Park relates, that some of his associates imprudently attempted to rob a numerous hive which they found in their way. The exasperated little animals rushed out to defend their property, and attacked them with so much fury, that they quickly compelled the whole company of men, horses, and asses, to scamper off in all directions. The horses were never recovered, and a number of the asses were so severely stung, that they died the next day. Deuteronomy 28:25, Deuteronomy 32:30, Psalms 118:12, Isaiah 7:18

unto Hormah: Numbers 14:45, Numbers 21:3

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:36 - and the Numbers 13:17 - the mountain Deuteronomy 1:2 - by the way Joshua 7:5 - for they Joshua 15:30 - Hormah

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Amorites which dwelt in the mountain,.... Elsewhere called Canaanites, being one, and a principal one of the seven nations of Canaan, and who were joined and assisted in the attack by the Amalekites, Numbers 14:45

came out against you, and chased you, as bees do; which being disturbed in their hives come out in great numbers, and with great fury and ardour (for, though a small creature, it has a great deal of spirit); and pursue the aggressor, and leave him not till they have stung him, though thereby they lose their stings, and quickly their lives, at least their usefulness; so these Amorites, being irritated at the approach of the Israelites on their borders, came out in great numbers and with great wrath, and fell upon them and smote them, and pursued them a long way, as is after expressed, though these in the issue were destroyed themselves. The Syriac version renders it, "as bees that are smoked": or irritated by smoke; which is a method that has been used, and was anciently: to dispossess them of their hives, and get their honey, as Bochart p from various writers has shown, as from Virgil q, Ovid r, and others; and when they are too much smoked become exceeding angry as Aristotle s and Pliny t observe; and which same writers take notice of the strength and force of their stings, as that they will kill with them the largest animals, even horses have been killed by them; and, though such small feeble creatures, are not afraid to attack men and beasts; yea, sometimes people have been obliged to leave their habitations, and have been driven out of their country by them, of which Aelianus u gives an instance; all which shows the aptness and propriety of this simile; see Psalms 118:12 and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah; pursued them as far as Mount Seir, even to another place on the borders of Edom, which was called Hormah, either from the destruction now or afterwards made here; Psalms 118:12- :, though some take it not to be the proper name of a place, but an appellative, and render it, "even unto destruction"; so the Jerusalem Targum; that is, destroyed them with an utter destruction.

p Hierozoic, par. 2. l. 4. c. 10. col. 507. q "-----Fumosque manu", &c. Virgil. Georgic. l. 4. v. 230. r "Quid, cum suppositos", &c. Ovid. de Remed. Amor. l. 1. v. 185. s Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 40. t Nat Hist. l. 11. c. 16, 18. u De Animal. l. 17. c. 35.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Amorites - In Numbers 14:45, it is “the Amalekites and the Canaanites” who are said to have discomfited them. The Amorites, as the most powerful nation of Canaan, lend their name here, as in other passages (eg. Deuteronomy 1:7) to the Canaanite tribes generally.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 1:44. The Amorites - chased you — Numbers 14:40: as bees do - by irresistible numbers.