¹⁷ When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he said to them, “Go up there into ^(A)the ^[a]Negev; then go up into the hill country.

^25 (A)Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way of the ^[a]Red Sea.”

⁴⁵ Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down, and struck them and scattered them as far as ^(A)Hormah.