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Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. And Moses built an altar and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi: For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.-Exodus 17:8-16***Joshua was the aide and future successor of Moses. Miriam and Aaron were the older siblings of Moses. Before 80-year-old Moses and 83-year-old Aaron led the Israelites away from Egyptian slavery, Aaron began speaking the words of the Lord God to the Israelites, according to the command of the Lord God. Hur was trusted, along with Aaron, to resolve matters that the Israelites faced while Moses was upon Mount Sinai 40 days and nights with the Lord God. A group of Amalekites lived near the region of the Egyptian border. Over 600 years before the Amalekites attacked the Israelites, a group of Amalekites were beaten by the 4 kings who kidnapped Lot, the nephew of Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai). The Israelites descended from Abraham and Sarah, their son Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and Isaac and Rebekah's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel). Isaac and Rebekah's oldest fraternal twin son Esau (Edom) was the grandfather of a group of Amalekites. When the Israelites were exhausted after crossing the divinely parted Red Sea and journeying through the desert wilderness of Shur, and the desert wilderness of Sin, and entering Rephidim, the actions of Moses, Joshua, Aaron, and Hur helped lead the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of the Lord God, to victory. However, the Amalekites managed to kill the slowest movers among the Israelites.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 13:1-14:45, 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 25:17-19, 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 1 Chronicles 1:1-4:23, 6:1-81, 7:20-29, 1 Samuel 15:1-37, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
Reference Information:
Jehovah = Yahweh = The Lord
nissi = nes = nasas/nacac = banner, signal, sign, ensign, standard
rehearse = wesim = sim/siym = sum = recount, put, place, set
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