Thematic Bible
Exodus 17:1 (show verse)
All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the LORD's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
Exodus 17:2 (show verse)
Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?"
Exodus 17:3 (show verse)
The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"
Exodus 17:4 (show verse)
Moses cried to the LORD, saying, "What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."
Exodus 17:5 (show verse)
The LORD said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.
Exodus 17:6 (show verse)
Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Exodus 17:7 (show verse)
He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us, or not?"
Exodus 17:8 (show verse)
Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
Exodus 17:9 (show verse)
Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand."
Exodus 17:10 (show verse)
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.
Exodus 17:11 (show verse)
It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
Exodus 17:12 (show verse)
But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.
Exodus 17:13 (show verse)
Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Exodus 17:14 (show verse)
The LORD said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial on a scroll, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky."
Exodus 17:15 (show verse)
Moses built an altar, and called its name the LORD our Banner.
Exodus 17:16 (show verse)
He said, "A hand upon the throne of the LORD. The LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.'"