Exodus 17:14

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“Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.””

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“Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
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“And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“and Jehovah said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Write this, a memorial in a Book, and set <FI>it<Fi> in the ears of Joshua, that I do utterly wipe away the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens;'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 17:14 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 12:14And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.
  2. Exodus 13:9It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
  3. Exodus 24:4And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early the next morning he got up and built an altar at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
  4. Exodus 34:27The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
  5. Numbers 24:20Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”
  6. Numbers 33:2At the LORD’s command, Moses recorded the stages of their journey. These are the stages listed by their starting points:
  7. Deuteronomy 25:17Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,
  8. Deuteronomy 25:19When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
  9. Deuteronomy 31:9So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.
  10. Joshua 4:7you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever.”
  11. 1 Samuel 15:2This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I witnessed what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they ambushed them on their way up from Egypt.
  12. 1 Samuel 15:7Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.
  13. 1 Samuel 15:18and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’
  14. 1 Samuel 27:8Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)
  15. 1 Samuel 30:1On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.
  16. 1 Samuel 30:17And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.
  17. 2 Samuel 1:1After the death of Saul, David returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days.
  18. 2 Samuel 1:8‘Who are you?’ he asked. So I told him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
  19. 2 Samuel 8:12from Edom and Moab, from the Ammonites and Philistines and Amalekites, and from the spoil of Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
  20. 1 Chronicles 4:42And five hundred of these Simeonites led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, went to Mount Seir
  21. 1 Chronicles 4:43and struck down the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped. And they have lived there to this day.
  22. Ezra 9:14shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? Would You not become so angry with us as to wipe us out, leaving no remnant or survivor?
  23. Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
  24. Job 19:23I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,

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