Deuteronomy 1:44

New American Bible - revised edition

Then the Amorites living in that hill country came out against you and put you to flight the way bees do, cutting you down in Seir as far as Hormah.

Cross References

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like bees; they burned up like fire among thorns; in the Lord’s name I cut them off.

Isaiah 7:18

On that day The Lord shall whistle for the fly in the farthest streams of Egypt, and for the bee in the land of Assyria.

Numbers 14:45

And the Amalekites and Canaanites who dwelt in that hill country came down and defeated them, beating them back as far as Hormah.

Numbers 21:3

The Lord paid attention to Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, and they put them and their cities under the ban. Hence that place was named Hormah. The Bronze Serpent.

Deuteronomy 28:25

The Lord will let you be beaten down before your enemies; though you advance against them from one direction, you will flee before them in seven, so that you will become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:30

“How could one rout a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, Unless it was because their Rock sold them, the Lord delivered them up?”

Joshua 7:5

who killed some thirty-six of them. They pursued them from the city gate to the Shebarim, and defeated them on the descent, so that the confidence of the people melted away like water.