Exodus 17:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.”
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BSBPD
“After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“And Amalek cometh, and fighteth with Israel in Rephidim,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Exodus 17:8 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 14:7Then they turned back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.
- Genesis 36:12Additionally, Timna, a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, gave birth to Amalek. These are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.
- Genesis 36:16Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. They are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom, and they are the grandsons of Adah.
- Numbers 13:29The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”
- Numbers 24:20Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”
- Deuteronomy 25:17Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,
- Deuteronomy 25:18how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God.
- Judges 6:3Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
- 1 Samuel 14:48He fought valiantly and defeated the Amalekites, delivering Israel from the hands of its plunderers.
- 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.
- 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.
- Psalms 83:7of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.
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