Exodus 17
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1 And all the
congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of
Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and
pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to
drink.
2 Wherefore the people did chide
with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto
them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
3 And the people thirsted there for
water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is
this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our
children and our cattle with thirst?
4 And Moses cried unto the LORD,
saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone
me.
5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go
on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy
rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
6 Behold, I will stand before thee
there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there
shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in
the sight of the elders of Israel.
7 And he called the name of the
place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of
Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us,
or not?
8 Then came Amalek, and
fought with Israel in Rephidim.
9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose
us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the
top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
10 So Joshua did as Moses had said
to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the
top of the hill.
11 And it came to pass, when Moses
held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand,
Amalek prevailed.
12 But Moses hands were
heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat
thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side,
and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going
down of the sun.
13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and
his people with the edge of the sword.
14 And the LORD said unto Moses,
Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the
ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from
under heaven.
15 And Moses built an altar, and
called the name of it Jehovahnissi:
16 For he said, Because the LORD
hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from
generation to generation.
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