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击盘出水(A)

17 以色列全体会众都照着耶和华的吩咐,一站一站,从汛的旷野起程,在利非订安营。在那里人民没有水喝。 因此人民与摩西争吵,说:“给我们水喝吧。”摩西对他们说:“你们为甚么与我争吵呢?你们为甚么试探耶和华呢?” 人民在那里渴望得水喝,就向摩西发怨言,说:“你为甚么把我们从埃及领上来,使我们和我们的儿女,以及我们的牲畜都渴死呢?” 摩西向耶和华呼求,说:“我要怎样对待这人民呢?他们几乎要用石头打死我了。” 耶和华回答摩西:“你要到人民的面前,要带着以色列的几个长老和你一起,手里要拿着你先前击打河水的杖。 看哪,我必在何烈山那里的盘石上站在你面前;你要击打盘石,就必有水从盘石流出来,使人民可以喝。”摩西就在以色列的长老眼前这样行了。 他给那地方起名叫玛撒,又叫米利巴,因为以色列人在那里争吵,又因为他们试探耶和华,说:“耶和华是不是在我们中间呢?”

与亚玛力人作战

那时亚玛力人来了,在利非订和以色列人争战。 摩西对约书亚说:“你要为我们选出人来,出去和亚玛力人争战;明天我要站在山顶上,手里拿着 神的杖。” 10 于是,约书亚照着摩西吩咐他的行了,去和亚玛力人争战;摩西、亚伦和户珥都上了山顶。 11 摩西举起手来的时候,以色列人就得胜;摩西把手放下来的时候,亚玛力人就得胜。 12 可是摩西的两手疲乏了,他们就搬块石头来,放在摩西下面,他就坐在上面;亚伦和户珥,一边一个,扶着摩西的两手;这样,他的两手就稳住,直到日落的时候。 13 约书亚用刀打败了亚玛力王和他的人民。

14 耶和华对摩西说:“我要把亚玛力的名号从天下完全抹掉;你要把话写在书上作记念,也要告诉约书亚。” 15 摩西筑了一座祭坛,给它起名叫“耶和华尼西”。 16 摩西又说:“向耶和华的旌旗举手,耶和华必世世代代和亚玛力人争战。”

Water From the Rock

17 The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin,(A) traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim,(B) but there was no water(C) for the people to drink. So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water(D) to drink.”(E)

Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?”(F)

But the people were thirsty(G) for water there, and they grumbled(H) against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die(I) of thirst?”

Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone(J) me.”

The Lord answered Moses, “Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff(K) with which you struck the Nile,(L) and go. I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb.(M) Strike(N) the rock, and water(O) will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the place Massah[a](P) and Meribah[b](Q) because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

The Amalekites Defeated

The Amalekites(R) came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.(S) Moses said to Joshua,(T) “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff(U) of God in my hands.”

10 So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur(V) went to the top of the hill. 11 As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning,(W) but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. 12 When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset.(X) 13 So Joshua overcame the Amalekite(Y) army with the sword.

14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write(Z) this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out(AA) the name of Amalek(AB) from under heaven.”

15 Moses built an altar(AC) and called(AD) it The Lord is my Banner. 16 He said, “Because hands were lifted up against[c] the throne of the Lord,[d] the Lord will be at war against the Amalekites(AE) from generation to generation.”(AF)

Footnotes

  1. Exodus 17:7 Massah means testing.
  2. Exodus 17:7 Meribah means quarreling.
  3. Exodus 17:16 Or to
  4. Exodus 17:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.

Chapter 17

Water from the Rock. From the wilderness of Sin the whole Israelite community journeyed by stages, as the Lord directed, and encamped at Rephidim.(A)

But there was no water for the people to drink, (B)and so they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses replied to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to a test?” Here, then, in their thirst for water, the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “Why then did you bring us up out of Egypt? To have us die of thirst with our children and our livestock?” So Moses cried out to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? A little more and they will stone me!” The Lord answered Moses: Go on ahead of the people, and take along with you some of the elders of Israel, holding in your hand, as you go, the staff with which you struck the Nile. I will be standing there in front of you on the rock in Horeb. Strike the rock, and the water will flow from it for the people to drink.(C) Moses did this, in the sight of the elders of Israel. The place was named Massah and Meribah,[a] because the Israelites quarreled there and tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord in our midst or not?”(D)

Battle with Amalek. Then Amalek[b] came and waged war against Israel in Rephidim.(E) So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some men for us, and tomorrow go out and engage Amalek in battle. I will be standing on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” 10 Joshua did as Moses told him: he engaged Amalek in battle while Moses, Aaron, and Hur climbed to the top of the hill. 11 As long as Moses kept his hands raised up, Israel had the better of the fight, but when he let his hands rest, Amalek had the better of the fight. 12 Moses’ hands, however, grew tired; so they took a rock and put it under him and he sat on it. Meanwhile Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other, so that his hands remained steady until sunset. 13 And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the sword.

14 Then the Lord said to Moses: Write this down in a book as something to be remembered, and recite it to Joshua:(F) I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens. 15 Moses built an altar there, which he named Yahweh-nissi;[c] 16 for he said, “Take up the banner of the Lord![d] The Lord has a war against Amalek through the ages.”

Footnotes

  1. 17:7 Massah…Meribah: Hebrew words meaning, respectively, “the place of the test” and “the place of strife, of quarreling.”
  2. 17:8 Amalek: the Amalekites appear in the Bible as early inhabitants of southern Palestine and the Sinai peninsula prior to the appearance of the Israelites in the region. Cf. Nm 24:20.
  3. 17:15 Yahweh-nissi: meaning, “the Lord is my banner.”
  4. 17:16 Take up the banner of the Lord: lit., “a hand on the Lord’s banner,” apparently a war cry for the Israelite troops in the conduct of Holy War; however, the Hebrew text is difficult to interpret.