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Israelites (vowing to the Lord): We pledge to You that if You help us win against these people, we will dedicate every last one of them to You and completely destroy their towns.

The Eternal One agreed to their proposal. He gave the Canaanites to the Israelites, and they promptly decimated the population and place. Consequently, the site is called Hormah, which means “destruction.

And the Israelites set out again. They left Mount Hor and traveled by way of the Red Sea,[a] skirting Edom; but again, the difficult travel gave everyone a short temper.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:4 Literally, Sea of Reeds

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