Bible Gateway passage: Exodus 17:8-16, 1 Samuel 15:2-3, 1 Samuel 15:33 - New International Version (2024)

The Amalekites Defeated

⁸The Amalekites^(A) came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.^{(B) 9}Moses said to Joshua,^(C) “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff^(D) of God in my hands.”

¹⁰So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur^(E) went to the top of the hill. ¹¹As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning,^(F) but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. ¹²When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset.^{(G) 13}So Joshua overcame the Amalekite^(H) army with the sword.

¹⁴Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write^(I) this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out^(J) the name of Amalek^(K) from under heaven.”

¹⁵Moses built an altar^(L) and called^(M) it The Lord is my Banner. ¹⁶He said, “Because hands were lifted up against^[a] the throne of the Lord,^[b] the Lord will be at war against the Amalekites^(N) from generation to generation.”^(O)

Footnotes

1. Exodus 17:16 Or to
2. Exodus 17:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.

Cross references

1. Exodus 17:8 : S Ge 36:12
2. Exodus 17:8 : S ver 1
3. Exodus 17:9 : Ex 24:13; 32:17; 33:11; Nu 11:28; 27:22; Dt 1:38; Jos 1:1; Ac 7:45
4. Exodus 17:9 : S Ex 4:17
5. Exodus 17:10 : ver 10-12; Ex 24:14; 31:2
6. Exodus 17:11 : Jas 5:16
7. Exodus 17:12 : Jos 8:26
8. Exodus 17:13 : ver 8
9. Exodus 17:14 : Ex 24:4; 34:27; Nu 33:2; Dt 31:9; Job 19:23; Isa 30:8; Jer 36:2; 45:1; 51:60
10. Exodus 17:14 : Ex 32:33; Dt 29:20; Job 18:17; Ps 9:5; 34:16; 109:15; Eze 18:4
11. Exodus 17:14 : ver 13; S Ge 36:12; Nu 24:7; Jdg 3:13; 1Sa 30:17-18; Ps 83:7
12. Exodus 17:15 : S Ge 8:20
13. Exodus 17:15 : S Ge 22:14
14. Exodus 17:16 : Nu 24:7; 1Sa 15:8, 32; 1Ch 4:43; Est 3:1; 8:3; 9:24
15. Exodus 17:16 : Est 9:5

Footnotes

1. 1 Samuel 15:3 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verses 8, 9, 15, 18, 20 and 21.

Cross references

1. 1 Samuel 15:2 : S Ge 14:7; S 1Sa 14:48; S 2Sa 1:8
2. 1 Samuel 15:3 : ver 9, 19; S Ge 14:23; Jos 6:17; 1Sa 22:19; 27:9; 28:18; Est 3:13; 9:5

³³But Samuel said,

“As your sword has made women childless,
so will your mother be childless among women.”^(A)

And Samuel put Agag to death before the Lord at Gilgal.

Cross references

1. 1 Samuel 15:33 : Est 9:7-10; Jer 18:21