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  • WEB World English Bible

    Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

  • KJV King James Version

    Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

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Cross-references (7)

Passages linked to Exodus 17:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Genesis 36:12 Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the descendants of Adah, Esau’s wife.
  • Deuteronomy 25:17-19 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt; how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God. Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.
  • Numbers 24:20 He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, “Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction.”
  • 1 Samuel 15:2 Yahweh of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way, when he came up out of Egypt.
  • 1 Samuel 30:1 When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,
  • Genesis 36:16 chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Adah.
  • Psalms 83:7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

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Explain this verse (20 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Who came of Eliphaz, son of Esau, Gen. 36:12.

Who came of Eliphaz, son of Esau, Gen. 36:12.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 17:8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Then, i.e. when they were upon their march from…
Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain We have here the story of the war with…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then came Amalek,.... The Amalekites, who were not the…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Then Amalek came and fought with Israel - The…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 8. Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel]…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Exo 17:8. Then came Amalek — When they were…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Then came Amalek - The attack occurred about two…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Amalec. The descendants of Esau by his grandson, living…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain ATTACK OF AMALEK. (Exo 17:8-16)
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain CONFLICT WITH AMALEK, Exo_17:8-16.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8. Then] Heb. And (Amalek came &c.). The immediate…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (8) Then came Amalek.—The Amalekites had not been previously…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 8-16. THE WAR WITH AMALEK. The Amalekites seem…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Then came Amalek, and fought.
The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary 1892 · Public Domain Exo_17:16. The Lord hath sworn.]—A far-fetched if not an…
Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain The Battle with the Amalekites
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 This was the name of a place in the…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 17:8-16 Israel was enabled to defeat the Amalekites only…

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