Exodus 17

1All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, starting according to Yahweh’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.Cross-references: Ex 16:1 · Ex 17:8 · Ex 19:2 · Num 33:12

2Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”Cross-references: Gen 30:1 · Ex 5:21 · Ex 14:11 · Ex 15:24 · Ex 16:2 · Ex 17:7 · +22 more

3The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”Cross-references: Ex 15:24 · Ex 16:2

4Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”Cross-references: Ex 14:15 · Ex 15:25 · Num 11:11 · Num 14:10 · Num 16:19 · 1Sam 30:6 · +4 more

5Yahweh said to Moses, “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.Cross-references: Ex 7:19 · Num 20:8 · Ezek 2:6 · Acts 20:23

6Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.Cross-references: Ex 3:1 · Ex 16:10 · Num 20:9 · Deut 8:15 · Neh 9:15 · Ps 46:4 · +12 more

7He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”Cross-references: Ex 17:2 · Ex 34:9 · Num 20:13 · Num 20:24 · Deut 9:22 · Deut 31:17 · +8 more

8Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.Cross-references: Gen 36:12 · Gen 36:16 · Num 24:20 · Deut 25:17 · 1Sam 15:2 · 1Sam 30:1 · +1 more

9Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out to fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.”Cross-references: Ex 4:2 · Ex 4:20 · Ex 17:13 · Ex 24:13 · Num 11:28 · Num 13:16 · +4 more

10So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.Cross-references: Ex 17:12 · Ex 24:14 · Ex 31:2 · Josh 11:15 · Matt 28:20 · John 2:5 · +1 more

11When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.Cross-references: Ps 56:9 · Luke 18:1 · 1Tim 2:8 · James 5:16

12But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.Cross-references: Ps 35:3 · Isa 35:3 · Matt 26:40 · Mark 14:37 · 2Cor 1:11 · Eph 6:18 · +5 more

13Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.Cross-references: Josh 10:28 · Josh 10:32 · Josh 10:37 · Josh 10:42 · Josh 11:12

14Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”Cross-references: Ex 12:14 · Ex 13:9 · Ex 24:4 · Ex 34:27 · Num 24:20 · Num 33:2 · +19 more

15Moses built an altar, and called its name “Yahweh our Banner”.Cross-references: Gen 22:14 · Gen 33:20 · Judg 6:24 · Ps 60:4

16He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”Cross-references: Ps 21:8 · Isa 66:1 · Acts 7:49