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Exodus 17

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Water From the Rock

17The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin,d traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim,e but there was no waterf for the people to drink. 2So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us waterg to drink.”h

Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?”i

3But the people were thirstyj for water there, and they grumbledk against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock diel of thirst?”

4Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stonem me.”

5The Lord answered Moses, “Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staffn with which you struck the Nile,o and go. 6I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb.p Strikeq the rock, and waterr will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7And he called the place Massahas and Meribahbt because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

The Amalekites Defeated

8The Amalekitesu came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.v 9Moses said to Joshua,w “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staffx of God in my hands.”

10So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hury went to the top of the hill. 11As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning,z 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.a 13So Joshua overcame the Amalekiteb army with the sword.

14Then the Lord said to Moses, “Writec this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot outd the name of Amaleke from under heaven.”

15Moses built an altarf and calledg it The Lord is my Banner. 16He said, “Because hands were lifted up againstc the throne of the Lord,d the Lord will be at war against the Amalekitesh from generation to generation.”i

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Footnotes

  1. aMassah means testing.
  2. bMeribah means quarreling.
  3. cOr to
  4. dThe meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.

Cross references

  1. dSee Ex 16:1
  2. ever 8; Ex 19:2; Nu 33:15
  3. fNu 20:5; 21:5; 33:14
  4. gNu 20:2; 33:14; Ps 107:5
  5. hSee Ex 14:12
  6. iDt 6:16; Ps 78:18, 41; 106:14; Mt 4:7; 1 Co 10:9
  7. jSee Ex 15:22
  8. kSee Ex 15:24
  9. lSee Ex 14:11
  10. mNu 14:10; 1 Sa 30:6; See Jn 8:59
  11. nSee Ex 4:2; See 10:12–13
  12. oEx 7:20
  13. pSee Ex 3:1
  14. qNu 20:8
  15. rNu 20:11; Dt 8:15; Jdg 15:19; 2 Ki 3:20; Ne 9:15; Ps 74:15; 78:15–16; 105:41; 107:35; 114:8; Isa 30:25; 35:6; 43:19; 48:21; 1 Co 10:4
  16. sDt 6:16; 9:22; 33:8; Ps 95:8
  17. tNu 20:13, 24; 27:14; Ps 81:7; 106:32
  18. uSee Ge 36:12
  19. vSee ver 1
  20. wEx 24:13; 32:17; 33:11; Nu 11:28; 27:22; Dt 1:38; Jos 1:1; Ac 7:45
  21. xSee Ex 4:17
  22. yver 10–12; Ex 24:14; 31:2
  23. zJas 5:16
  24. aJos 8:26
  25. bver 8
  26. cEx 24:4; 34:27; Nu 33:2; Dt 31:9; Job 19:23; Isa 30:8; Jer 36:2; 45:1; 51:60
  27. dEx 32:33; Dt 29:20; Job 18:17; Ps 9:5; 34:16; 109:15; Eze 18:4
  28. ever 13; See Ge 36:12; Nu 24:7; Jdg 3:13; 1 Sa 30:17–18; Ps 83:7
  29. fSee Ge 8:20
  30. gSee Ge 22:14
  31. hNu 24:7; 1 Sa 15:8, 32; 1 Ch 4:43; Est 3:1; 8:3; 9:24
  32. iEst 9:5

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