(17:1) "The wilderness of Sin ... in Rephidim"
Where did Moses get water from a rock?
(17:2)
"Moses said unto them ... wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?"
Can God be tempted?
(17:3-7) The Israelites had nothing to drink, so they complained to Moses, who complained to God, saying, "Hey,
they're about ready to stone me to death." So God stood on a rock and told Moses to strike it with his magic rod. Moses did as he was told,
but I'm not sure if if worked or not, because the story is interrupted with the arrival of the Amalekites.
(17:3) "The people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses."
(17:4) "Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me."
(17:6) "I will stand before thee there upon the rock; and thou shalt smite the rock,
and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink.
And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel."
How did God tell Moses to get water from a rock?
(17:7) "They tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?"
(17:11-12) As long as Moses the magician keeps his hand up, the Israelites are successful in battle, but the
second his hand falls, they start getting beat.
(7:11) "When Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed:: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed."
(7:12) "But Moses hands were heavy ... and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands."
(17:13-16) The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation
God's 11th Killing
(17:13) "Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword."
(17:14) "The LORD said unto Moses,
I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven."
(17:16) "The Lord has sworn [God
swears!] that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to
generation."
| 17:1
And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the
wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the
LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to
drink.
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| 17:2
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we
may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye
tempt the LORD?
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| 17:3
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against
Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of
Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
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| 17:4
And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people?
they be almost ready to stone me.
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| 17:5
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee
of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take
in thine hand, and go.
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| 17:6
Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou
shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people
may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
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| 17:7
And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the
chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD,
saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
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| 17:8
Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
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| 17:9
And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with
Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in
mine hand.
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| 17:10
So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses,
Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
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| 17:11
And it came to pass, when
Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his
hand, Amalek prevailed.
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| 17:12
But Moses hands were
heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and
Aaron and Hur stayed up
his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and
his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
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| 17:13
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
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| 17:14
And the LORD said unto
Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears
of Joshua: for I will
utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
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| 17:15
And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:
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| 17:16
For he said, Because the
LORD hath sworn that
the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
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