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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the Amalekites: Numbers 14:43, Exodus 17:16, Deuteronomy 1:44, Deuteronomy 32:30, Joshua 7:5, Joshua 7:11, Joshua 7:12
Hormah: Numbers 21:3, Judges 1:17
Reciprocal: Genesis 14:7 - Amalekites Numbers 21:1 - the way of the spies Joshua 12:14 - Hormah Joshua 15:30 - Hormah 1 Samuel 15:33 - As thy sword Psalms 81:14 - I should Psalms 89:43 - not made
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then the Amalekites came down,.... The hill; met the Israelites as they ascended: and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill; the same with the Amorites, one of the seven nations of Canaan,
Numbers 13:29;
and smote them; with the sword, having the advantage of them in coming down the hill upon them:
and discomfited them even unto Hormah; the name of a place, so called from what happened there; as Jarchi says; either from this destruction of the Israelites at this time by these their enemies, or from the destruction of the Canaanites by Israel, Numbers 21:4; and so here has its name by anticipation; or it may be from both these events, and seems to be confirmed by a third of the like kind, having been in former times called Zephath, Judges 1:17; see Joshua 15:30; though some take it to be an appellative here, and not the proper name of a place, and render it even unto destruction, as the Targum of Jonathan, denoting the very great destruction and havoc that were made among them: how many were destroyed is not certain; the judgment threatened them of God soon began to take place, that their carcasses should fall in that wilderness.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Unto Hormah - literally, “the Hormah:” i. e. “the banning,” or “ban-place.” Compare Numbers 21:3; Joshua 12:14. According to the view taken of Kadesh (see Numbers 13:26), Hormah is identified, through its earlier name, Zephath Judges 1:17, with es-Safah on the southeastern frontier of Canaan, by which the Israelites quitted the Arabah for the higher ground, (or with Sebaita, which lies further to the west, about 25 miles north of Ain Gadis).
