Exodus 17:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

For he said, Because the LORD has sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

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  • Ps 21:8-9 : 8 Your hand shall find all your enemies: your right hand shall find those who hate you. 9 You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall consume them. 10 You shall destroy their offspring from the earth, and their descendants from among the children of men. 11 For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous scheme, which they are not able to perform.
  • Isa 66:1 : 1 Thus says the LORD, The heavens are my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you build for me? and where is the place of my rest?
  • Acts 7:49 : 49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool. What house will you build for me? says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 15:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

    2Thus says the LORD of hosts, I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him on the way, when he came up from Egypt.

    3Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

  • Exod 17:13-15
    3 verses
    78%

    13And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

    14And the LORD said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

    15And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it The LORD is my banner:

  • Exod 17:8-11
    4 verses
    78%

    8Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

    9And Moses said to 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 my hand.

    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.

    11And it happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

  • Deut 25:17-19
    3 verses
    75%

    17Remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you came forth out of Egypt;

    18How he met you on the way and attacked your rear, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.

    19Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget it.

  • 1 Sam 15:18
    75%

    18And the LORD sent you on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.

  • Num 24:20
    75%

    20And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end shall be that he perish forever.

  • 1 Sam 28:18
    74%

    18Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD, nor execute his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you today.

  • Deut 1:34-35
    2 verses
    74%

    34And the LORD heard the sound of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,

    35Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,

  • Num 32:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10And the LORD's anger was kindled at that time, and he swore, saying,

    11Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,

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

    15Always remember his covenant, the word he commanded to a thousand generations;

    16Even the covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

    17And confirmed to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

  • Deut 2:17
    71%

    17that the LORD spoke unto me, saying,

  • 1 Sam 3:14
    71%

    14And therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice or offering forever.

  • Num 14:26
    71%

    26And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Gen 22:16
    71%

    16And said, By myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son:

  • Ps 105:8
    71%

    8He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

  • Lev 17:1
    71%

    1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • 1 Sam 15:15
    71%

    15And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

  • 1 Sam 15:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7And Saul struck the Amalekites from Havilah until you come to Shur, which is opposite Egypt.

    8And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

  • Num 14:16
    70%

    16Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.

  • Ps 110:4
    70%

    4The LORD has sworn and will not relent, You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

  • Exod 15:3
    70%

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

  • Exod 31:16
    70%

    16Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual covenant.

  • Num 14:43
    70%

    43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you have turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.

  • Exod 15:18
    70%

    18The LORD shall reign forever and ever.

  • Lev 18:1
    70%

    1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 21:14
    69%

    14Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, What He did in the Red Sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,

  • Num 25:16
    69%

    16And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    69%

    43And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that had escaped, and dwelt there to this day.

  • Exod 14:14
    69%

    14The LORD shall fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.

  • Num 15:17
    69%

    17And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 31:1
    69%

    1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Ps 106:26
    69%

    26Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness.

  • Josh 22:27
    69%

    27But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before Him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the LORD.

  • Lev 27:1
    68%

    1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,