Exodus 17:13
Hebrew Text— Exodus 17:13Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
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One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.
Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand.
Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.
Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.
and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.
Yahweh said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A rod.”
When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is the noise of war in the camp.”
Yahweh your God, who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.
Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.
Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
You have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you.
They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him.
An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.
Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”
He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”
Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.”
Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”
These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be clear of obligation to Yahweh and to Israel. Then this land shall be your possession before Yahweh.
You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God himself fights for you.”
You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.
for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”
You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”
It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to Yahweh’s word. Behold, I have commanded you.”
as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh and sacrificed peace offerings.
They answered Joshua, and said, “Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed it and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
Yahweh delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
Yahweh delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. He took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with all the souls who were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
They took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.
They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it.
He took it, with its king and all its cities. They struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king.
So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no one remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.
Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.
As Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take plunder.
What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?
“Isn’t Yahweh your God with you? Hasn’t he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.
Abijah pursued Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephron with its villages.
He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.
“Kings of armies flee! They flee!” She who waits at home divides the plunder,
Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.
He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.
You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot.
Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.
They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.
Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ”
which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,
For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.