Israel Defeats Amalek
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n Now Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
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And Moses said to Joshua, "Choose us some men and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with o the rod of God in my hand."
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So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
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And so it was, when Moses p held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
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But Moses' hands became heavy; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. And Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
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So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
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Then the LORD said to Moses, q "Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that r I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven."
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And Moses built an altar and called its name, The-LORD-Is-My-Banner;
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for he said, "Because the LORD has s sworn: the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation."
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Cross References
Genesis 36:12
Now Timna was the concubine of Eliphaz, Esau's son, and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These were the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.
Numbers 24:20
Then he looked on Amalek, and he took up his oracle and said: "Amalek was first among the nations, But shall be last until he perishes.
Deuteronomy 25:17 - 19
Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:2
Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt.
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Cross References
Exodus 4:20
Then Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
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Cross References
James 5:16
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
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Cross References
Exodus 24:4
And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Exodus 34:27
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.
Numbers 33:2
Now Moses wrote down the starting points of their journeys at the command of the LORD. And these are their journeys according to their starting points:
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:19
Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.
1 Samuel 15:3
'Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"
2 Samuel 1:1
Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag.
1 Chronicles 4:43
And they defeated the rest of the Amalekites who had escaped. They have dwelt there to this day.
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Cross References
Genesis 22:14 - 16
And Abraham called the name of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, "In the Mount of the LORD it shall be provided.
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