So Israel vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou wilt deliver and give this people into mine hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

And the Lord heard the voice of Israel, and delivered them the Canaanites: and they utterly destroyed them and their cities, and called the name of the place [a](A)Hormah.

¶ After they departed from the mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to [b]compass the land of Edom: and the people were sore grieved because of the way.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:3 Or, destruction.
  2. Numbers 21:4 For they were forbidden to destroy it, Deut. 2:5.

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