Exodus Chapter 17

Exodus Chapter 17
1 And all the congregation of the
children of Israel departed from the
wilderness of Sin, by their journeys at
the commandment of the Lord, and
camped in Rephidim, where was no
water for the people to drink. 2
Wherefore the people contended with
Moses, and said, Give us water that we
may drink. And Moses said unto them,
Why contend ye with me?
Wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?
3 So the people thirsted there for water,
and the people murmured against Moses,
and said, Wherefore hast thou thus
brought us out of Egypt to kill us and our
children and our cattle with thirst?
4 And Moses cried to the Lord, saying,
What shall I do to this people? For they
be almost ready to stone me.
5 And the Lord answered to Moses, Go
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:
6 Behold, I will stand there before thee
upon the rock in Horeb, and thou shalt
smite on the rock, and water shall come
out of it, that the people may drink. And
Moses did so in the sight of the elders of
Israel.
7 And he called the name of the place,
Massah and Meribah, because of the
contention of the children of Israel, and
because they had tempted the Lord,
saying, Is the Lord among us, or no?
8 Then came Amalek and fought with
Israel in Rephidim.
9 And Moses said to Joshua, Choose us
out men, and go fight with Amalek:
tomorrow I will stand on the top of the
hill with the rod of God in mine hand. 10
So Joshua did as Moses bade him, and
fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron,
and Hur, went up to the top of the hill.
11 And when Moses held up his hand,
Israel prevailed: but when he let his
hand down, Amalek prevailed.
12 Now Moses’ hands were heavy:
therefore they took a stone and put it
under him, and he sat upon it: and Aaron
and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on
the one side, and the other on the other
side: so his hands were steady until the
going down of the sun.
13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and
his people with the edge of the sword.
14 And the Lord said to Moses, Write
this for a remembrance in the book, and
rehearse it to Joshua: for I will utterly
put out the remembrance of Amalek from
under heaven.
15 (And Moses built an altar and called
the name of it, Jehovah-nissi) 16 Also he
said, The Lord hath sworn, that he will
have war with Amalek from generation
to generation.