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Exodus 17:13

And Josue put Amalec and his people to flight, by the edge of 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.
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.
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 And Amalec came, and fought against Israel in Raphidim. 9 And Moses said to Josue: Choose out men; and go out and fight against Amalec: tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill, having the rod of God in my hand. 10 Josue did as Moses had spoken, and he fought against Amalec; but Moses, and Aaron, and Hur, went up upon the top of the hill. 11 And when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel overcame; but if he let them down a little, Amalec overcame. 12 And Moses’s hands were heavy: so they took a stone, and put under him, and he sat on it: and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands on both sides. And it came to pass, that his hands were not weary until sunset. 13 And Josue put Amalec and his people to flight, by the edge of the sword. 14 And the Lord said to Moses: Write this for a memorial in a book, and deliver it to the ears of Josue; for I will destroy the memory of Amalec from under heaven. 15 And Moses built an altar; and called the name thereof, The Lord, my exaltation, saying: 16 Because the hand of the throne of the Lord, and the war of the Lord shall be against Amalec, 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
Which when Abram had heard, to wit, that his brother Lot was taken, he numbered of the servants born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, well appointed: and pursued them to Dan.
Genesis 15:3
And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant born in my house, shall be my heir.
Genesis 37:27
It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren agreed to his words.
Genesis 37:36
The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, captain of the soldiers.
Genesis 39:1
And Joseph was brought into Egypt, and Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, chief captain of the army, an Egyptian, bought him of the Ismaelites, by whom he was brought.
Exodus 12:44
But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat.
Exodus 21:2
If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Exodus 21:4
But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and daughters; the woman and her children shall be her master’s: but he himself shall go out with his raiment.
Exodus 21:16
He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the guilt, shall be put to death.
Nehemiah 5:5
And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men possess.

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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