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Exodus 17:13

And Joshua overcame Amalek and his people with the sword.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Amalekites;   Intercession;   Israel;   Joshua;   Miracles;   Prayer;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Amalekites, the;   Armies;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Miracles Wrought through Servants of God;   Prayer, Answers to;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Amalekites;   Joshua;   Miracle;   Rephidim;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Amalekites;   Baal;   Joshua the son of nun;   Moses;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Joshua, Theology of;   War, Holy War;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Amalekite;   Joshua;   Prayer;   Rephidim;   Sinai;   Wars of the Lord, the Book of the;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Amalekites;   Purim;   War;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amalekite;   Exodus, Book of;   Joshua;   Moses;   Mount Sinai;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Amalek, Amalekites;   Joshua;   Massah and Meribah;   Moses;   Zin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Amalek, Amalekites ;   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;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Am'alekites,;   Pu'rim;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Agag;   Rephidim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Sinai;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Amalek;   Intercession;   Moses;   Purim;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Army;   Joshua (Jehoshua);   Noá¹­ariḳon;   Purim;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Yehoshua defeated `Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
King James Version
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Lexham English Bible
And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
New Century Version
So Joshua defeated the Amalekites in this battle.
New English Translation
So Joshua destroyed Amalek and his army with the sword.
Amplified Bible
So Joshua overwhelmed and defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
New American Standard Bible
And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Ioshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Contemporary English Version
That's how Joshua defeated the Amalekites.
Complete Jewish Bible
Thus Y'hoshua defeated ‘Amalek, putting their people to the sword.
Darby Translation
And Joshua broke the power of Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Joshua and his men defeated the Amalekites in this battle.
English Standard Version
And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword.
George Lamsa Translation
And Joshua defeated Amalek with the edge of the sword.
Good News Translation
In this way Joshua totally defeated the Amalekites.
Christian Standard Bible®
So Joshua defeated Amalek and his army with the sword.
Literal Translation
And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people by the mouth of the sword.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Iosua discomfited Amalek, & his people thorow the edge of the swerde.
American Standard Version
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iosua discomforted Amelec and his people with the edge of the sworde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
King James Version (1611)
And Ioshua discomfited Amalek, and his people, with the edge of the sword.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joshua routed Amalec and all his people with the slaughter of the sword.
English Revised Version
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Berean Standard Bible
So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his army with the sword.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Josue droof a wey Amalech and his puple, in `the mouth of swerd, that is, bi the scharpnesse of the swerd.
Young's Literal Translation
and Joshua weakeneth Amalek and his people by the mouth of the sword.
Update Bible Version
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
World English Bible
Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
New King James Version
So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
New Living Translation
As a result, Joshua overwhelmed the army of Amalek in battle.
New Life Bible
So Joshua destroyed Amalek and his people with the sword.
New Revised Standard
And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the sword.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Joshua overthrew Amalek and his people, with the edge of the sword.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Josue put Amalec and his people to flight, by the edge of the sword.
Revised Standard Version
And Joshua mowed down Am'alek and his people with the edge of the sword.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

Contextual Overview

8 Then Amalek came and made war on Israel in Rephidim. 9 And Moses said to Joshua, Get together a band of men for us and go out, make war on Amalek: tomorrow I will take my place on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand. 10 So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and went to war with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 Now while Moses' hand was lifted up, Israel was the stronger: but when he let his hand go down, Amalek became the stronger. 12 But Moses' hands became tired; so they put a stone under him and he took his seat on it, Aaron and Hur supporting his hands, one on one side and one on the other; so his hands were kept up without falling till the sun went down. 13 And Joshua overcame Amalek and his people with the sword. 14 And the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a book, so that it may be kept in memory, and say it again in the ears of Joshua: that all memory of Amalek is to be completely uprooted from the earth. 15 Then Moses put up an altar and gave it the name of Yahweh-nissi: 16 For he said, The Lord has taken his oath that there will be war with Amalek from generation to generation.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 10:28, Joshua 10:32, Joshua 10:37, Joshua 10:42, Joshua 11:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 17:9 - unto Joshua

Cross-References

Genesis 14:14
And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far as Dan.
Genesis 15:3
And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.
Genesis 37:27
Let us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let us not put violent hands on him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers gave ear to him.
Genesis 37:36
And in Egypt the men of Midian gave him for a price to Potiphar, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house.
Genesis 39:1
Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar the Egyptian, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house, got him for a price from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
Exodus 12:44
But every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may take of it, when he has had circumcision.
Exodus 21:2
If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.
Exodus 21:4
If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.
Exodus 21:16
Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.
Nehemiah 5:5
But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. Amalek being distinguished from "his people", has led some to think that Amalek was the name of the king, or general of the army, and that it was a common name to the kings of that nation, as Pharaoh was to the kings of Egypt; but for this there is no foundation in the Scriptures: as Amelek signifies the Amalekites, his people may design the confederates and auxiliaries, the other people, as Ben Gersom expresses it, they brought with them to fight against Israel. And so Jerom z says, by him another Canaanite dwelt, who also fought against Israel in the wilderness, of whom it is so written, and Amalek and the Canaanite dwelt in the valley, Numbers 14:25 and who were all, the one as the other, at least the greatest part of them, cut to pieces by the edge of the sword of Joshua and the Israelites, who obtained a complete victory over them; as the spiritual Israel of God will at last over all their spiritual enemies, sin, Satan, the world, and death.

z Ut supra. (De Locis Hebr. fol. 87. M.)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With the edge of the sword - This expression always denotes a great slaughter of the enemy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 17:13. Joshua discomfited Amalek and his peopleAmalek might have been the name of the ruler of this people continued down from their ancestor, (Exodus 17:8; Exodus 17:8,) as Pharaoh was the name of all succeeding kings in Egypt. If this were the case, then Amalek and his people mean the prince and the army that fought under him. But if Amalek stand here for the Amalekites, then his people must mean the confederates he had employed on this occasion.


 
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