Exodus 17:8
6 Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7 He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.
9 So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.”
10 Joshua did as Moses had instructed him and fought against the Amalekites, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.
- KJV
- Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
- WEB
- Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
- ASV
- Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
- DARBY
- And Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
- BLB
- And Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
- ÅB
- Så kom Amalek og stred med Israel i Refidim.
- OTB
- Amalekittene kom og førte krig mot Israel ved Rephidim.
- B1930
- Så kom Amalek og stred med Israel i Refidim.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 25:17–19
Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,
Read in contextGenesis 36:12
Additionally, Timna, a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, gave birth to Amalek. These are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.
Read in contextNumbers 24:20
Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”
Read in context1 Samuel 15:2
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I witnessed what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they ambushed them on their way up from Egypt.
Read in context1 Samuel 30:1
On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.
Read in contextGenesis 36:16
Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. They are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom, and they are the grandsons of Adah.
Read in contextPsalms 83:7
of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.
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