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English Standard Version

Exodus 17:13

And Joshua overwhelmed 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.
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 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. 9 So Moses said to Joshua, "Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand." 10 So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses' hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13 And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword. 14 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven." 15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner, 16 saying, "A hand upon the throne of the Lord ! The Lord will have 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
When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
Genesis 15:3
And Abram said, "Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir."
Genesis 37:27
Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers listened to him.
Genesis 37:36
Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.
Genesis 39:1
Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.
Exodus 12:44
but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him.
Exodus 21:2
When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
Exodus 21:4
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone.
Exodus 21:16
"Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.
Nehemiah 5:5
Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards."

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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