“Amalek dwells in the region of the south” (Numbers 13:29) – what did they see that led them to open with Amalek? It is analogous to a child who misbehaved and was struck with a strap. When they seek to scare him, they remind him of the strap with which he was struck. So, Amalek was an injurious strap for Israel. What did he see that led him to settle in the border region on the route of Israel’s entry into the Land? This is what his grandfather, Esau, commanded him, to encounter them on the way, so he uprooted from his place and settled on the route. “The Amalekites and the Canaanites…descended and smote them and crushed them, until Horma” (Numbers 14:45).