Exodus 17:13

Contemporary English Version

That's how Joshua defeated the Amalekites.

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.

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.

Bible in Basic English
And Joshua overcame Amalek and his people with 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 When the Israelites were at Rephidim, they were attacked by the Amalekites. ⁹ So Moses told Joshua, "Have some men ready to attack the Amalekites tomorrow. I will stand on a hilltop, holding this walking stick that has the power of God." ¹⁰ Joshua led the attack as Moses had commanded, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur stood on the hilltop. ¹¹ The Israelites out-fought the Amalekites as long as Moses held up his arms, but they started losing whenever he had to lower them. ¹² Finally, Moses was so tired that Aaron and Hur got a rock for him to sit on. Then they stood beside him and supported his arms in the same position until sunset. ¹³ That's how Joshua defeated the Amalekites. ¹⁴ Afterwards, the Lord said to Moses, "Write an account of this victory and read it to Joshua. I want the Amalekites to be forgotten forever." ¹⁵ Moses built an altar and named it "The Lord Gives Me Victory." ¹⁶ Then Moses explained, "This is because I depended on the Lord . But in future generations, the Lord will have to fight the Amalekites again."

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
that his nephew Lot had been taken away. Three hundred eighteen of Abram's servants were fighting men, so he took them and followed the enemy as far north as the city of Dan.

Genesis 15:3
You have not given me any children, and this servant of mine will inherit everything."

Genesis 37:27
Let's sell him to the Ishmaelites and not harm him. After all, he is our brother." And the others agreed.

Genesis 37:36
Meanwhile, the Midianites had sold Joseph in Egypt to a man named Potiphar, who was the king's official in charge of the palace guard.

Genesis 39:1
The Ishmaelites took Joseph to Egypt and sold him to Potiphar, the king's official in charge of the palace guard.

Exodus 12:44
Your slaves may eat the meal if they have been circumcised,

Exodus 21:2
If you buy a Hebrew slave, he must remain your slave for six years. But in the seventh year you must set him free, without cost to him.

Exodus 21:4
If you give him a wife, and they have children, only the man himself must be set free; his wife and children remain the property of his owner.

Exodus 21:16
Death is the punishment for kidnapping. If you sell the person you kidnapped, or if you are caught with that person, the penalty is death.

Nehemiah 5:5
We are Jews just as they are, and our children are as good as theirs. But we still have to sell our children as slaves, and some of our daughters have already been raped. We are completely helpless; our fields and vineyards have even been taken from us."

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 people — Amalek 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.