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Exodus 17:13

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Amalekites;   Intercession;   Israel;   Joshua;   Miracles;   Prayer;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Amalekites, the;   Armies;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Miracles Wrought through Servants of God;   Prayer, Answers to;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Amalekites;   Joshua;   Miracle;   Rephidim;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Amalekites;   Baal;   Joshua the son of nun;   Moses;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Joshua, Theology of;   War, Holy War;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Amalekite;   Joshua;   Prayer;   Rephidim;   Sinai;   Wars of the Lord, the Book of the;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Amalekites;   Purim;   War;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amalekite;   Exodus, Book of;   Joshua;   Moses;   Mount Sinai;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Amalek, Amalekites;   Joshua;   Massah and Meribah;   Moses;   Zin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Amalek, Amalekites ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Ensign;   Mordecai;   Mount amalek;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Rephidim;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Am'alekites,;   Pu'rim;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Agag;   Rephidim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Sinai;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Amalek;   Intercession;   Moses;   Purim;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Army;   Joshua (Jehoshua);   Noá¹­ariḳon;   Purim;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Yehoshua defeated `Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
King James Version
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Lexham English Bible
And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
New Century Version
So Joshua defeated the Amalekites in this battle.
New English Translation
So Joshua destroyed Amalek and his army with the sword.
Amplified Bible
So Joshua overwhelmed and defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
New American Standard Bible
And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Ioshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Contemporary English Version
That's how Joshua defeated the Amalekites.
Complete Jewish Bible
Thus Y'hoshua defeated ‘Amalek, putting their people to the sword.
Darby Translation
And Joshua broke the power of Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Joshua and his men defeated the Amalekites in this battle.
English Standard Version
And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword.
George Lamsa Translation
And Joshua defeated Amalek with the edge of the sword.
Good News Translation
In this way Joshua totally defeated the Amalekites.
Christian Standard Bible®
So Joshua defeated Amalek and his army with the sword.
Literal Translation
And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people by the mouth of the sword.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Iosua discomfited Amalek, & his people thorow the edge of the swerde.
American Standard Version
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Bible in Basic English
And Joshua overcame Amalek and his people with the sword.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iosua discomforted Amelec and his people with the edge of the sworde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
King James Version (1611)
And Ioshua discomfited Amalek, and his people, with the edge of the sword.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joshua routed Amalec and all his people with the slaughter of the sword.
English Revised Version
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Berean Standard Bible
So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his army with the sword.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Josue droof a wey Amalech and his puple, in `the mouth of swerd, that is, bi the scharpnesse of the swerd.
Young's Literal Translation
and Joshua weakeneth Amalek and his people by the mouth of the sword.
Update Bible Version
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
World English Bible
Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
New King James Version
So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
New Living Translation
As a result, Joshua overwhelmed the army of Amalek in battle.
New Life Bible
So Joshua destroyed Amalek and his people with the sword.
New Revised Standard
And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the sword.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Joshua overthrew Amalek and his people, with the edge of the sword.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Josue put Amalec and his people to flight, by the edge of the sword.
Revised Standard Version
And Joshua mowed down Am'alek and his people with the edge of the sword.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

Contextual Overview

8Amalek came and fought Israel at Rephidim. Moses ordered Joshua: "Select some men for us and go out and fight Amalek. Tomorrow I will take my stand on top of the hill holding G od's staff." 10Joshua did what Moses ordered in order to fight Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went to the top of the hill. It turned out that whenever Moses raised his hands, Israel was winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, Amalek was winning. But Moses' hands got tired. So they got a stone and set it under him. He sat on it and Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on each side. So his hands remained steady until the sun went down. Joshua defeated Amalek and its army in battle. 14 God said to Moses, "Write this up as a reminder to Joshua, to keep it before him, because I will most certainly wipe the very memory of Amalek off the face of the Earth." 15Moses built an altar and named it " God My Banner." He said, Salute God 's rule! God at war with Amalek Always and forever!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 10:28, Joshua 10:32, Joshua 10:37, Joshua 10:42, Joshua 11:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 17:9 - unto Joshua

Cross-References

Genesis 37:36
In Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials, manager of his household affairs.
Genesis 39:1
After Joseph had been taken to Egypt by the Ishmaelites, Potiphar an Egyptian, one of Pharaoh's officials and the manager of his household, bought him from them.
Exodus 21:2
"When you buy a Hebrew slave, he will serve six years. The seventh year he goes free, for nothing. If he came in single he leaves single. If he came in married he leaves with his wife. If the master gives him a wife and she gave him sons and daughters, the wife and children stay with the master and he leaves by himself. But suppose the slave should say, ‘I love my master and my wife and children—I don't want my freedom,' then his master is to bring him before God and to a door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl, a sign that he is a slave for life.
Exodus 21:16
"If someone kidnaps a person, the penalty is death, regardless of whether the person has been sold or is still held in possession.
Nehemiah 5:8
The "Great Protest" A great protest was mounted by the people, including the wives, against their fellow Jews. Some said, "We have big families, and we need food just to survive." Others said, "We're having to mortgage our fields and vineyards and homes to get enough grain to keep from starving." And others said, "We're having to borrow money to pay the royal tax on our fields and vineyards. Look: We're the same flesh and blood as our brothers here; our children are just as good as theirs. Yet here we are having to sell our children off as slaves—some of our daughters have already been sold—and we can't do anything about it because our fields and vineyards are owned by somebody else." I got really angry when I heard their protest and complaints. After thinking it over, I called the nobles and officials on the carpet. I said, "Each one of you is gouging his brother." Then I called a big meeting to deal with them. I told them, "We did everything we could to buy back our Jewish brothers who had to sell themselves as slaves to foreigners. And now you're selling these same brothers back into debt slavery! Does that mean that we have to buy them back again?" They said nothing. What could they say?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. Amalek being distinguished from "his people", has led some to think that Amalek was the name of the king, or general of the army, and that it was a common name to the kings of that nation, as Pharaoh was to the kings of Egypt; but for this there is no foundation in the Scriptures: as Amelek signifies the Amalekites, his people may design the confederates and auxiliaries, the other people, as Ben Gersom expresses it, they brought with them to fight against Israel. And so Jerom z says, by him another Canaanite dwelt, who also fought against Israel in the wilderness, of whom it is so written, and Amalek and the Canaanite dwelt in the valley, Numbers 14:25 and who were all, the one as the other, at least the greatest part of them, cut to pieces by the edge of the sword of Joshua and the Israelites, who obtained a complete victory over them; as the spiritual Israel of God will at last over all their spiritual enemies, sin, Satan, the world, and death.

z Ut supra. (De Locis Hebr. fol. 87. M.)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With the edge of the sword - This expression always denotes a great slaughter of the enemy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 17:13. Joshua discomfited Amalek and his peopleAmalek might have been the name of the ruler of this people continued down from their ancestor, (Exodus 17:8; Exodus 17:8,) as Pharaoh was the name of all succeeding kings in Egypt. If this were the case, then Amalek and his people mean the prince and the army that fought under him. But if Amalek stand here for the Amalekites, then his people must mean the confederates he had employed on this occasion.


 
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