Numeri 14:45

45 Da kamen die Amalekiter und Kanaaniter, die auf dem Gebirge wohnten, herab und schlugen und zersprengten sie bis gen Horma.

Numeri 14:45 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:45

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.

Numeri 14:45 In-Context

43 Denn die Amalekiter und Kanaaniter sind vor euch daselbst, und ihr werdet durchs Schwert fallen, darum daß ihr euch vom HERRN gekehrt habt, und der HERR wird nicht mit euch sein.

44 Aber sie waren störrig, hinaufzuziehen auf die Höhe des Gebirges; aber die Lade des Bundes des HERRN und Mose kamen nicht aus dem Lager.

45 Da kamen die Amalekiter und Kanaaniter, die auf dem Gebirge wohnten, herab und schlugen und zersprengten sie bis gen Horma.