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Exodus 17:8
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Then `Amalek came and fought with Yisra'el in Refidim.
Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
And Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.
At Rephidim the Amalekites came and fought the Israelites.
Then Amalek [and his people] came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.
Then Amalek came and fought against Israel at Rephidim.
Then came Amalek and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
Then Amalek came and fought against Israel at Rephidim.
When the Israelites were at Rephidim, they were attacked by the Amalekites.
Then ‘Amalek came and fought with Isra'el at Refidim.
And Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
At Rephidim the Amalekites came and fought against the Israelites.
Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.
Then came Amalek to fight with Israel at Rephidim.
The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.
At Rephidim, Amalek came and fought against Israel.
And Amalek came and fought against Israel in Rephidim.
Then came Ameleck, & fought agaynst Israel in Raphidim.
Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
Then Amalek came and made war on Israel in Rephidim.
Then came Amelec and fought with Israel in Raphidim.
Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
Then came Amalek, & fought with Israel in Rephidim.
And Amalec came and fought with Israel in Raphidin.
Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.
Forsothe Amalech cam, and fauyt ayens Israel in Rafidym.
And Amalek cometh, and fighteth with Israel in Rephidim,
Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
Genesis 14:7; Numbers 13:29; 14:25">[xr] Now Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
While the people of Israel were still at Rephidim, the warriors of Amalek attacked them.
Then Amalek came and fought against Israel at Rephidim.
Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.
Then came in Amalek, - and fought with Israel, in Rephidim.
And Amalec came, and fought against Israel in Raphidim.
Then came Am'alek and fought with Israel at Reph'idim.
Amalek 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."
Then Amalek came and fought against Israel at Rephidim.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Genesis 36:12, Genesis 36:16, Numbers 24:20, Deuteronomy 25:17, 1 Samuel 15:2, 1 Samuel 30:1, Psalms 83:7
Reciprocal: Genesis 14:7 - Amalekites Exodus 17:1 - Rephidim Exodus 19:2 - Rephidim Numbers 13:29 - Amalekites Judges 5:14 - Amalek Judges 12:15 - in the mount 2 Samuel 1:8 - an Amalekite Jeremiah 31:2 - The people
Cross-References
I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.
Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you."
I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!"
Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, "Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"
But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."
"I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead."
May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident."
He said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and will multiply you. I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants as an everlasting possession.'
I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then came Amalek,.... The Amalekites, who were not the posterity of Amalek, a son of Eliphaz, the son of Esau, by Timna the concubine of Eliphaz, Genesis 36:12 who dwelt in the desert, to the south of Judea, beyond the city Petra, as you go to Aila, as Jerom says t; and so the Targum of Jonathan describes them as coming from the south; and Aben Ezra interprets them a nation that inhabited the southern country. Josephus u calls them the inhabitants of Gobolitis and Petra; but they were the descendants of Cush, and the same with those who were in Abraham's time long before Amalek, the descendant of Esau, was in being, Genesis 14:7 and who bordered eastward on the wilderness of Shur:
and fought with Israel in Rephidim; so that this was before they came from hence to Sinai, very probably as they were on the march thither, and before the rock was smitten, and they had been refreshed with water, and so while they were in distress for want of that, and therefore this must be a great trial and exercise to them. What should move the Amalekites to come and fight with them, is not easy to say; it is by many thought to be the old grudge of the children of Esau against the children of Israel, because of the affair of the birthright and blessing which Jacob got from Esau, who were now on their march for the land of Canaan, which came to him thereby: but it is hardly probable that these people should know anything of those matters at this distance, and besides were not of the race of Esau; and if anything of this kind was in remembrance, and still subsisted, it is most likely that the Edomites would have been concerned to stop them, rather than these: it is more probable, that these had heard of their coming out, of Egypt with great riches, the spoils of the Egyptians; and being an unarmed, undisciplined people, though numerous, thought to have taken this advantage against them of their distress and contentious, and plundered them of their wealth; unless we can suppose them to be an ally of the Canaanites, and so bound by treaty to obstruct their passage to the land of Canaan: but be it as it may; they came out against them, and fought with them without any provocation, the Israelites not attempting to enter their country, but rather going from it; for these seem to follow them, to come upon the back of them, and fall upon their rear, as appears from Deuteronomy 25:17.
t De locis Hebr. fol. 87. M. u Antiqu. l. 3. c. 2. sect. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Then came Amalek - The attack occurred about two months after the Exodus, toward the end of May or early in June, when the Bedouins leave the lower plains in order to find pasture for their flocks on the cooler heights. The approach of the Israelites to Sinai would of course attract notice, and no cause of warfare is more common than a dispute for the right of pasturage. The Amalekites were at that time the most powerful race in the Peninsula; here they took their position as the chief of the pagans. They were also the first among the pagans who attacked God’s people, and as such were marked out for punishment (see the marginal references).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 17:8. Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel — The Amalekites seem to have attacked the Israelites in the same way and through the same motives that the wandering Arabs attack the caravans which annually pass through the same desert. It does not appear that the Israelites gave them any kind of provocation, they seem to have attacked them merely through the hopes of plunder. The Amalekites were the posterity of Amalek, one of the dukes of Eliphaz, the son of Esau, and consequently Israel's brother, Genesis 36:15-16.
Fought with Israel — In the most treacherous and dastardly manner; for they came at the rear of the camp, smote the hindmost of the people, even all that were feeble behind, when they were faint and weary; see Deuteronomy 25:18. The baggage, no doubt, was the object of their avarice; but finding the women, children, aged and infirm persons, behind with the baggage, they smote them and took away their spoils.
