⁸The Amalekites fought Israel at Rephidim. ⁹Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men. Then fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill. I will hold in my hand the staff God told me to take along.”

¹⁰Joshua did as Moses told him and fought the Amalekites, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went to the top of the hill. ¹¹As long as Moses held up his hands, Israel would win, but as soon as he put his hands down, the Amalekites would start to win. ¹²Eventually, Moses’ hands felt heavy. So Aaron and Hur took a rock, put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron held up one hand, and Hur held up the other. His hands remained steady until sunset. ¹³So Joshua defeated the Amalekite army in battle.

¹⁴The Lord said to Moses, “Write this reminder on a scroll, and make sure that Joshua hears it, too: I will completely erase any memory of the Amalekites from the earth.”

¹⁵Moses built an altar and called it The Lord Is My Banner. ¹⁶He said, “Because a hand was lifted against the Lord’s throne,he will be at war against the Amalekites from one generation to the next.”

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