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?

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  • 1 Sam 15:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

    2 Thus 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.

    3 Now 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.

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

    14 And 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.

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

  • Exod 17:8-11
    4 verses
    78%

    8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

    9 And 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.

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

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

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

    18 How 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.

    19 Therefore 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.

  • 18 And 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.

  • 20 And 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.

  • 18 Because 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%

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

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

    11 Surely 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,

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

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

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

  • 17 that the LORD spoke unto me, saying,

  • 14 And 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.

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

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

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

  • 1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

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

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

  • 16 Because 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.

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

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

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

  • 43 For 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.

  • 18 The LORD shall reign forever and ever.

  • 1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • 14 Therefore 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,

  • 16 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

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

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

  • 17 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • 1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

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

  • 27 But 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.

  • 1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,