“Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.”
Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and attacked them and beat them down all the way to Hormah — the military defeat at Hormah (the place of 'herem'—devotion unto destruction) mirrors the spiritual defeat: Israel attempted to take the land without God and was routed utterly. The name Hormah becomes a memento of presumptuous failure.
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