Deuteronomy 1:44

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The Amorites who lived in that hill country then came out against you and chased you as bees do. They beat you down in Seir as far as Hormah.

Cross References

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like bees; they blazed like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!

Isaiah 7:18

On that day the Lord will whistle for the fly that is at the sources of the streams of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

Numbers 14:45

Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and defeated them, pursuing them as far as Hormah.

Numbers 21:3

The Lord listened to the voice of Israel and handed over the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their towns; so the place was called Hormah.

Deuteronomy 28:25

“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out against them one way and flee before them seven ways. You shall become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How could one have routed a thousand and two put a myriad to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, the Lord had given them up?

Joshua 7:5

The men of Ai killed about thirty-six of them, chasing them from outside the gate as far as Shebarim and killing them on the slope. The hearts of the people melted and turned to water.