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出埃及记 17:14

耶和華對摩西說:“我要把亞瑪力的名號從天下完全抹掉;你要把話寫在書上作記念,也要告訴約書亞。”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Amalekites;   Intercession;   Prayer;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Amalekites, the;   Books;   Theocracy, the, or Immediate Government by God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Amalekites;   Book;   Joshua;   Moses;   Rephidim;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Amalekites;   Baal;   Joshua the son of nun;   Moses;   Pentateuch;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - War, Holy War;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Book;   Joshua;   League;   Pentateuch;   Rephidim;   Wars of the Lord, the Book of the;   Writing;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Agag;   Amalekites;   Esther;   Numbers, the Book of;   Pentateuch;   Purim;   War;   Writing;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Agag;   Amalekite;   Exodus, Book of;   Mount Sinai;   Pentateuch;   Writing;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Amalek, Amalekites;   Hexateuch;   Joshua;   Massah and Meribah;   Moses;   Zin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Amalek, Amalekites ;   Mordecai ;   Writing;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Ensign;   Mordecai;   Mount amalek;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Rephidim;   Writing;   Smith Bible Dictionary - A'gag;   Am'alekites,;   Pu'rim;   Writing;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Amalek;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Agag;   Writing;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Sinai;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bible, the;   Intercession;   Law in the Old Testament;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Purim;   Rehearse;   Text of the Old Testament;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Agag;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alexandri;   Amalek, Amalekites;   Cæsarea;   Jethro;   Joshua (Jehoshua);   Purim;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 和 华 对 摩 西 说 : 我 要 将 亚 玛 力 的 名 号 从 天 下 全 然 涂 抹 了 ; 你 要 将 这 话 写 在 书 上 作 纪 念 , 又 念 给 约 书 亚 听 。

Contextual Overview

8 At Rephidim the Amalekites came and fought the Israelites. 9 So Moses said to Joshua, "Choose some men and go and fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill, holding the walking stick of God in my hands." 10 Joshua obeyed Moses and went to fight the Amalekites, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went to the top of the hill. 11 As long as Moses held his hands up, the Israelites would win the fight, but when Moses put his hands down, the Amalekites would win. 12 Later, when Moses' arms became tired, the men put a large rock under him, and he sat on it. Then Aaron and Hur held up Moses' hands—Aaron on one side and Hur on the other. They kept his hands steady until the sun went down. 13 So Joshua defeated the Amalekites in this battle. 14 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write about this battle in a book so people will remember. And be sure to tell Joshua, because I will completely destroy the Amalekites from the earth." 15 Then Moses built an altar and named it The Lord Is My Banner. 16 Moses said, "I lifted my hands toward the Lord 's throne. The Lord will fight against the Amalekites forever."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

memorial: Exodus 12:14, Exodus 13:9, Exodus 34:27, Deuteronomy 31:9, Joshua 4:7, Job 19:23, Haggai 2:2, Haggai 2:3

for I will: Numbers 24:20, Deuteronomy 25:17-19, 1 Samuel 15:2, 1 Samuel 15:3, 1 Samuel 15:7, 1 Samuel 15:8, 1 Samuel 15:18, 1 Samuel 27:8, 1 Samuel 27:9, 1 Samuel 30:1, 1 Samuel 30:17, 2 Samuel 1:1, 2 Samuel 1:8-16, 2 Samuel 8:12, 1 Chronicles 4:43, Ezra 9:14

the remembrance: Job 18:17, Psalms 9:6, Proverbs 10:7

Reciprocal: Leviticus 24:7 - a memorial Numbers 5:23 - write these Deuteronomy 7:24 - their name Deuteronomy 25:19 - thou shalt 1 Samuel 14:48 - smote Esther 3:2 - bowed not Esther 9:20 - wrote these Job 13:12 - remembrances Psalms 102:18 - This Psalms 137:7 - Remember Isaiah 65:6 - it is Jeremiah 30:2 - General Jeremiah 36:2 - a roll Matthew 5:43 - and hate

Cross-References

Genesis 17:2
I will make an agreement between us, and I will make you the ancestor of many people."
Genesis 17:12
From now on when a baby boy is eight days old, you will circumcise him. This includes any boy born among your people or any who is your slave, who is not one of your descendants.
Genesis 17:20
"As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will bless him and give him many descendants. And I will cause their numbers to grow greatly. He will be the father of twelve great leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.
Genesis 17:21
But I will make my agreement with Isaac, the son whom Sarah will have at this same time next year."
Genesis 17:24
Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised.
Genesis 17:26
Abraham and his son were circumcised on the same day.
Exodus 12:15
For this feast you must eat bread made without yeast for seven days. On the first day, you are to remove all the yeast from your houses. No one should eat any yeast for the full seven days of the feast, or that person will be cut off from Israel.
Exodus 12:19
For seven days there must not be any yeast in your houses. Anybody who eats yeast during this time, either an Israelite or non-Israelite, must be cut off from the community of Israel.
Exodus 30:33
If anyone makes perfume like it or puts it on someone who is not a priest, that person must be cut off from his people.'"
Exodus 30:38
Whoever makes incense like this to use as perfume must be cut off from his people."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said unto Moses,.... After the battle was over, and the Israelites had got the victory:

write this for a memorial in a book: not in loose papers, but in a book, that it might continue; meaning that the account of this battle with Amelek should be put down in the annals or journal of Moses, in the book of the law he was writing, or was about to write, and would write, as he did, see Joshua 1:7 that so it might be kept in memory, and transmitted to the latest posterity; it being on the one hand an instance of great impiety, inhumanity, and rashness, in Amalek, and on the other a display of the goodness, kindness, and power of God on the behalf of his people: and

rehearse it in the ears of Joshua; who was a principal person concerned in this battle, and therefore, when the account was written and rehearsed, could bear witness to the truth of it, as well as he was to be the chief person that should be concerned in introducing the Israelites into the land of Canaan, and subduing the Canaanites; and therefore this, and what follows, was to be rehearsed to him, as the rule of his conduct toward them, and particularly Amalek:

for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amelek from under heaven; so that they shall be no more a nation, and their name never mentioned, unless with disgrace and contempt. This was fulfilled partly by Saul,

1 Samuel 15:8 and more completely by David, 1 Samuel 30:17, and the finishing stroke the Jews give to Mordecai and Esther, as the Targum of Jerusalem on Exodus 17:6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In a book - in the book, i. e. the book which contained the history of God’s dealings with His people. Moses was further instructed to impress the command especially on the mind of Joshua, as the leader to whom the first step toward its accomplishment would be entrusted on the conquest of Canaan. The work was not actually completed until the reign of Hezekiah, 1 Chronicles 4:43.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 17:14. Write this for a memorial in a book — This is the first mention of writing on record: what it signified, or how it was done, we cannot tell. But it is evident that either this passage is introduced here instead of Deuteronomy 25:17, by way of anticipation, or that by the words כתב שפר kethob and sepher was intended only a monumental declaration of the defeat of Amalek by Joshua, by some action or symbolical representation; for it is immediately subjoined, "And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi." See Dr. A. Bayley, and see the note on Exodus 30:0. It is very likely that the first regular alphabetical writing in the world was that written by the finger of God himself on the two tables of stone. What is said here was probably by way of anticipation, or means some other method of registering events than by alphabetical characters, if we allow that God gave the first specimen of regular writing on the tables of stone, which did not take place till some time after this.

Rehearse it in the ears of Joshua — Thus showing that Joshua was to succeed Moses, and that this charge should be given to every succeeding governor.

I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek — This threatening was accomplished by SAUL, 1 Samuel 15:3, c. four hundred and twelve years after. Judgment is God's strange work; but it must take place when the sins which incensed it are neither repented of nor forsaken. This people, by their continued transgressions, proved themselves totally unworthy of a political existence; and therefore said God to Saul, Go, and utterly destroy the SINNERS the Amalekites; 1 Samuel 15:18. So their continuance in sin was the cause of their final destruction.


 
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