Exodus 17:11

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Whenever Moses would raise his hands, then Israel prevailed, but whenever he would rest his hands, then Amalek prevailed.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 So I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or dispute.
  • Jas 5:16 : 16 So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness.
  • Ps 56:9 : 9 My enemies will turn back when I cry out to you for help; I know that God is on my side.
  • Luke 18:1 : 1 Prayer and the Parable of the Persistent Widow Then Jesus told them a parable to show them they should always pray and not lose heart.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 17:12-16
    5 verses
    87%

    12When the hands of Moses became heavy, they took a stone and put it under him, and Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side and one on the other, and so his hands were steady until the sun went down.

    13So Joshua destroyed Amalek and his army with the sword.

    14The LORD said to Moses,“Write this as a memorial in the book, and rehearse it in Joshua’s hearing; for I will surely wipe out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

    15Moses built an altar, and he called it“The LORD is my Banner,”

    16for he said,“For a hand was lifted up to the throne of the LORD– that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”

  • Exod 17:8-10
    3 verses
    86%

    8Victory over the Amalekites Amalek came and attacked Israel in Rephidim.

    9So Moses said to Joshua,“Choose some of our men and go out, fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”

    10So Joshua fought against Amalek just as Moses had instructed him, and Moses and Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

  • Deut 25:17-19
    3 verses
    73%

    17Treatment of the Amalekites Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way from Egypt,

    18how they met you along the way and cut off all your stragglers in the rear of the march when you were exhausted and tired; they were unafraid of God.

    19So when the LORD your God gives you relief from all the enemies who surround you in the land he is giving you as an inheritance, you must wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven– do not forget!

  • Exod 24:13-15
    3 verses
    72%

    13So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up the mountain of God.

    14He told the elders,“Wait for us in this place until we return to you. Here are Aaron and Hur with you. Whoever has any matters of dispute can approach them.”

    15Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

  • Judg 6:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2The Midianites overwhelmed Israel. Because of Midian the Israelites made shelters for themselves in the hills, as well as caves and strongholds.

    3Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.

  • Exod 14:25-27
    3 verses
    70%

    25He jammed the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving, and the Egyptians said,“Let’s flee from Israel, for the LORD fights for them against Egypt!”

    26The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand toward the sea, so that the waters may flow back on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen!”

    27So Moses extended his hand toward the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state when the sun began to rise. Now the Egyptians were fleeing before it, but the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

  • 1 Sam 15:2
    70%

    2Here is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said:‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed Israel along the way when Israel came up from Egypt.

  • Num 14:45
    70%

    45So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped down and attacked them as far as Hormah.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    70%

    48He fought bravely, striking down the Amalekites and delivering Israel from the hand of its enemies.

  • Num 14:13
    70%

    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

  • Exod 2:11
    70%

    11The Presumption of the Deliverer In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people.

  • Num 24:20
    69%

    20Balaam’s Final Prophecies Then Balaam looked on Amalek and delivered this oracle:“Amalek was the first of the nations, but his end will be that he will perish.”

  • Num 17:11
    69%

    11So Moses did as the LORD commanded him– this is what he did.

  • Exod 9:33
    68%

    33So Moses left Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain stopped pouring on the earth.

  • Exod 14:21
    68%

    21Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the LORD drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.

  • Ps 118:16
    68%

    16the LORD’s right hand gives victory, the LORD’s right hand conquers.

  • Num 14:25-26
    2 verses
    68%

    25(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”

    26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Deut 34:12
    68%

    12and he displayed great power and awesome might in view of all Israel.

  • Deut 31:24
    68%

    24Anticipation of Disobedience When Moses finished writing on a scroll the words of this law in their entirety,

  • Num 14:5
    68%

    5Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.

  • Exod 32:11
    68%

    11But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God and said,“O LORD, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

  • Judg 4:24
    68%

    24Israel’s power continued to overwhelm King Jabin of Canaan until they did away with him.

  • Num 10:35
    68%

    35And when the ark traveled, Moses would say,“Rise up, O LORD! May your enemies be scattered, and may those who hate you flee before you!”

  • Num 11:30
    68%

    30Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

  • Num 14:41
    68%

    41But Moses said,“Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the LORD? It will not succeed!

  • Gen 14:7
    68%

    7Then they attacked En Mishpat(that is, Kadesh) again, and they conquered all the territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazazon Tamar.

  • Exod 34:29
    68%

    29The Radiant Face of Moses Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand– when he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

  • Exod 10:22
    68%

    22So Moses extended his hand toward heaven, and there was absolute darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.

  • Exod 14:14
    68%

    14The LORD will fight for you, and you can be still.”

  • Judg 11:32
    68%

    32Jephthah approached the Ammonites to fight with them, and the LORD handed them over to him.

  • Exod 24:18
    68%

    18Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.