Exodus 17:8–16

Victory Over the Amalekites

⁸ⁿNow Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. ⁹And Moses said to Joshua, “Choose us some men and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with ^othe rod of God in my hand.” ¹⁰So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. ¹¹And so it was, when Moses ^pheld up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. ¹²But Moses’ hands became ⁵heavy; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. And Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. ¹³So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

¹⁴Then the Lord said to Moses, ^q“Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that ^rI will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.” ¹⁵And Moses built an altar and called its name, ⁶The-Lord-Is-My-Banner; ¹⁶for he said, “Because ⁷the Lord has ^ssworn: the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”