Exodus 17:16

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For he said, The Lord has taken his oath that there will be war with Amalek from generation to generation.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 21:8-9 : 8 Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you. 9 You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire. 10 Their fruit will be cut off from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. 11 For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.
  • Isa 66:1 : 1 The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?
  • Acts 7:49 : 49 Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 15:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

    2 The Lord of armies says, I will give punishment to Amalek for what he did to Israel, fighting against him on the way when Israel came out of Egypt.

    3 Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.

  • Exod 17:13-15
    3 verses
    78%

    13 And Joshua overcame Amalek and his people with the sword.

    14 And the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a book, so that it may be kept in memory, and say it again in the ears of Joshua: that all memory of Amalek is to be completely uprooted from the earth.

    15 Then Moses put up an altar and gave it the name of Yahweh-nissi:

  • Exod 17:8-11
    4 verses
    78%

    8 Then Amalek came and made war on Israel in Rephidim.

    9 And Moses said to Joshua, Get together a band of men for us and go out, make war on Amalek: tomorrow I will take my place on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.

    10 So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and went to war with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

    11 Now while Moses' hand was lifted up, Israel was the stronger: but when he let his hand go down, Amalek became the stronger.

  • Deut 25:17-19
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    75%

    17 Keep in mind what Amalek did to you on your way from Egypt;

    18 How, meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you when you were tired and without strength, cutting off all the feeble ones at the end of your line; and the fear of God was not in him.

    19 So when the Lord your God has given you rest from all who are against you on every side, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, see to it that the memory of Amalek is cut off from the earth; keep this in mind.

  • 1 Sam 15:18
    75%

    18 And the Lord sent you on a journey and said, Go and put to the curse those sinners, the Amalekites, fighting against them till every one is dead.

  • Num 24:20
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    20 Then, turning his eyes to Amalek, he went on with his story and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his part will be destruction for ever.

  • 1 Sam 28:18
    74%

    18 Because you did not do what the Lord said, and did not give effect to his burning wrath against Amalek. So the Lord has done this thing to you today.

  • Deut 1:34-35
    2 verses
    74%

    34 And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath,

    35 Truly, not one of this evil generation will see that good land which I said I would give to your fathers,

  • Num 32:10-11
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    73%

    10 And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made an oath, saying,

    11 Truly, not one of the men of twenty years old and over who came out of Egypt will see the land which I gave by oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not been true to me with all their heart;

  • 1 Chr 16:15-17
    3 verses
    72%

    15 He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

    16 The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

    17 And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;

  • Deut 2:17
    71%

    17 The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • 1 Sam 3:14
    71%

    14 So I have made an oath to the family of Eli that no offering of meat or of meal which they may make will ever take away the sin of his family.

  • Num 14:26
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    26 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

  • Gen 22:16
    71%

    16 Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,

  • Ps 105:8
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    8 He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

  • Lev 17:1
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    1 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • 1 Sam 15:15
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    15 And Saul said, They have taken them from the Amalekites: for the people have kept the best of the sheep and of the oxen as an offering to the Lord your God; all the rest we have given up to destruction.

  • 1 Sam 15:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 And Saul made an attack on the Amalekites from Havilah on the road to Shur, which is before Egypt.

    8 He took Agag, king of the Amalekites, prisoner, and put all the people to the sword without mercy.

  • Num 14:16
    70%

    16 Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.

  • Ps 110:4
    70%

    4 The Lord has made an oath, and will not take it back. You are a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek.

  • Exod 15:3
    70%

    3 The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.

  • Exod 31:16
    70%

    16 And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement.

  • Num 14:43
    70%

    43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will be put to death by their swords: because you have gone back from the way of the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.

  • Exod 15:18
    70%

    18 The Lord is King for ever and ever.

  • Lev 18:1
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    1 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 21:14
    69%

    14 As it says in the book of the Wars of the Lord, Vaheb in Suphah, and the valley of the Amon;

  • Num 25:16
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    16 Then the Lord said to Moses,

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    69%

    43 And they put to death the rest of the Amalekites who had got away safely, and made it their living-place to this day.

  • Exod 14:14
    69%

    14 The Lord will make war for you, you have only to keep quiet.

  • Num 15:17
    69%

    17 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 31:1
    69%

    1 Then the Lord said to Moses,

  • Ps 106:26
    69%

    26 So he made an oath against them, to put an end to them in the waste land:

  • Josh 22:27
    69%

    27 But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord.

  • Lev 27:1
    68%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses,