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1 The whole community of the Israelites journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, following Yahweh's instructions. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, starting according to Yahweh’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
2 So the people blamed Moses for their situation and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”
2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”
3 The people were very thirsty, and they complained against Moses. They said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt? To kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”
3 The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”
4 Then Moses cried out to Yahweh, “What should I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
4 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
5 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go on ahead of the people, and take with you some elders of Israel. Take with you the staff with which you struck the river, and go.
5 Yahweh said to Moses, “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.
6 I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you will strike the rock. Water will come out of it for the people to drink.” Then Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7 He called that place Massah and Meribah because of the Israelites' complaining, and because they had tested the Lord by saying, “Is Yahweh among us or not?”
7 He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”
8 Then an army of the Amalek people came and attacked Israel at Rephidim.
8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
9 So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some men and go out. Fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”
9 Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out to fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.”
10 So Joshua fought Amalek as Moses had instructed, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
10 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 While Moses was holding his hands up, Israel was winning; when he let his hands rest, Amalek would begin to win.
11 When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12 When Moses' hands became heavy, Aaron and Hur took a stone and put it under him for him to sit on. At the same time, Aaron and Hur held his hands up, one person on one side of him, and the other person on the other side. So Moses' hands were held steady until the sun went down.
12 But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.
13 So Joshua defeated the people of Amalek with the sword.
13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this in a book and read it in Joshua's hearing, because I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under the skies.”
14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”
15 Then Moses built an altar and he called it “Yahweh is my banner.”
15 Moses built an altar, and called its name “Yahweh our Banner”.
16 He said, “For a hand was lifted up to the throne of Yahweh—that Yahweh will wage war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
16 He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”

People & places in this chapter

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People

  • Aaron

    First high priest

    Moses' brother and spokesman, Israel's first high priest.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 4–40; Leviticus 8–10

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  • Hur

    Helped hold up Moses' hands

    The man who with Aaron held up Moses' hands during the battle with Amalek at Rephidim, and who was left with Aaron to settle disputes while Moses went up the mountain. Exodus 31:2…

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 17:10; Exodus 17:12; Exodus 24:14

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  • Joshua

    Moses' assistant and successor

    The Ephraimite son of Nun, originally named Hoshea, who led Israel against Amalek at Rephidim, served as Moses' attendant, was one of the two faithful spies, and was commissioned…

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 17:9; Exodus 33:11; Numbers 13:16

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  • Moses

    Deliverer and lawgiver

    Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34

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Cross references (16)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Exodus 16:1; Exodus 19:2; Exodus 17:8; Numbers 33:12–14
  2. 2 Psalm 78:18; Deuteronomy 6:16; 1 Corinthians 10:9; Psalm 78:41; Isaiah 7:12
  3. 3 Exodus 16:2–3; Exodus 15:24
  4. 4 1 Samuel 30:6; Numbers 14:10; John 8:59; John 10:31; Acts 14:19
  5. 5 Exodus 7:19–20; Numbers 20:8–11; Ezekiel 2:6; Acts 20:23–24
  6. 6 1 Corinthians 10:4; Nehemiah 9:15; Numbers 20:9–11; Psalm 105:41; Deuteronomy 8:15
  7. 7 Psalm 81:7; Numbers 20:13; Psalm 95:8; Deuteronomy 9:22; Exodus 17:2
  8. 8 Deuteronomy 25:17–19; Genesis 36:12; Numbers 24:20; 1 Samuel 15:2; 1 Samuel 30:1
  9. 9 Deuteronomy 32:44; Exodus 24:13; Exodus 4:20; Exodus 4:2; Hebrews 4:8
  10. 10 Exodus 24:14; Exodus 31:2; Exodus 17:12; Joshua 11:15; Matthew 28:20
  11. 11 1 Timothy 2:8; James 5:16; Psalm 56:9; Luke 18:1
  12. 12 Isaiah 35:3; Philippians 1:19; Hebrews 12:12; Ephesians 6:18; 2 Corinthians 1:11
  13. 13 Joshua 10:42; Joshua 11:12; Joshua 10:32; Joshua 10:37; Joshua 10:28
  14. 14 Exodus 34:27; 1 Samuel 30:1; 1 Samuel 30:17; Numbers 24:20; 2 Samuel 8:12
  15. 15 Genesis 22:14; Judges 6:24; Psalm 60:4; Genesis 33:20
  16. 16 Psalm 21:8–11; Isaiah 66:1; Acts 7:49

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 17:16 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter XVI)

    … shall have knowledge to cry, Father or mother, He shall receive the power of Damascus, and the spoils of Samaria, against the king of the Assyrians;" declaring, in a mysterious manner indeed, but emphatically, that the Lord did fight with a hidden hand against Amalek. For this cause, too, He suddenly removed those children belonging to the house of David, …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  2. Quotes verse 17:6 Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John (Chapter XV — 24, 25)

    … who else save Moses smote the Egyptians with so many and mighty plagues, as when He led the people through the parted waters of the sea, when he obtained manna for them from heaven in their hunger, and water from the rock in their thirst? Who else save Joshua the son of Nun divided the stream of the Jordan for …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)