Num 21:2-3 | ESV | STEP | And Israel vowed a vow to the Lord and said , If you will indeed give this people into my hand , then I will devote their cities to destruction.

c ch. 14:45; Deut. 1:44; Josh. 19:4; Judg. 1:17

Numbers 21:2-3

2 ^aAnd Israel vowed a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.” ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verse 3} 3 And the Lord heeded the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and they devoted them and their cities to destruction. So the name of the place was called ^cHormah. ^{▼▼ Hormah means destruction}