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Exodus 17:9-16

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9 So Moses said to 1Joshua, "Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with 2the staff of God in my hand."
10 So 3Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and 4Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 Whenever Moses 5held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12 But Moses' hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and 6Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
13 And 7Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword.
14 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of 8Joshua, that 9I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven."
15 And Moses 10built an altar and called the name of it, The LORD Is My Banner,
16 saying, "A hand upon the throne[a] of the LORD! 11The LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation."
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Exodus 17:9-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 17

The children of Israel coming to Rephidim, want water, and chide with Moses about it, who, crying to the Lord, is bid to smite the rock, from whence came water for them, and he named the place from their contention with him, Ex 17:1-7 at this place Amalek came and fought with Israel, who, through the prayer of Moses, signified by the holding up of his hands, and by the sword of Joshua, was vanquished, Ex 17:8-13, for the remembrance of which it was ordered to be recorded in a book, and an altar was built with this inscription on it, "Jehovahnissi": it being the will of God that Amalek should be fought with in every generation until utterly destroyed, Ex 17:14-16.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

  • 1. Exodus 24:13; Exodus 32:17; Exodus 33:11
  • 2. Exodus 4:20
  • 3. [See ver. 9 above]
  • 4. Exodus 24:14; Exodus 31:2
  • 5. [1 Timothy 2:8]
  • 6. [See ver. 10 above]
  • 7. [See ver. 9 above]
  • 8. [See ver. 9 above]
  • 9. Numbers 24:20; Deuteronomy 25:19; 1 Samuel 15:3, 7; 1 Samuel 30:1, 17; 2 Samuel 8:12
  • 10. [Judges 6:24]
  • 11. [See ver. 14 above]

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. A slight change would yield upon the banner
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