C.
The living water out of the smitten rock
17:1-7
Exo. 17
:1
17:1
And all the assembly of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin by their
1stages according to the command of Jehovah and encamped in
aRephidim, and there was
2no water for the people to drink.
Exo. 17
:2
17:2
Therefore the people
1acontended with Moses and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why are you contending with me? Why do you
btest Jehovah?
Exo. 17
:3
17:3
So the people thirsted there for water, and the people
amurmured against Moses and said, For what reason did you bring us up out of Egypt; to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?
Exo. 17
:4
17:4
So Moses cried out to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do with this people?
1A little more, and they will stone me.
Exo. 17
:5
17:5
And Jehovah said to Moses, Pass on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your
astaff with which you struck the River, and go.
Exo. 17
:6
17:6
I will be standing before you there upon the
1rock in Horeb; and you shall
2strike the
arock, and
3water will come out of it so that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Exo. 17
:7
17:7
And he called the name of the place
1aMassah and
2bMeribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel and because they tested Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us or not?
D.
The defeat of Amalek
17:8-16
Exo. 17
:8
17:8
Then 1aAmalek came and
2fought with Israel in Rephidim.
Exo. 17
:9
17:9
And Moses said to
1aJoshua, Choose men for us, and go out; fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the
bstaff of God in my hand.
Exo. 17
:10
17:10
So Joshua did as Moses had said to him and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and
aHur went up to the top of the hill.
Exo. 17
:11
17:11
And when Moses
1lifted his hand up, Israel prevailed; and when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed.
Exo. 17
:12
17:12
But Moses’ hands were
1heavy, so they took a stone and put
it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Exo. 17
:13
17:13
And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Exo. 17
:14
17:14
And Jehovah said to Moses, Write this as a memorial in a book and
1recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly
2blot out the memory of
aAmalek from under heaven.
Exo. 17
:15
17:15
And Moses built an
aaltar and called the name of it
1Jehovah-nissi;
Exo. 17
:16
17:16
For he said, For there is a
1hand against the throne of
2Jah! Jehovah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
