Exodus 17:8-16

English Standard Version

Israel Defeats Amalek

^8 (A)Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. ⁹ So Moses said to ^(B)Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with ^(C)the staff of God in my hand.” ¹⁰ So ^(D)Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and ^(E)Hur went up to the top of the hill. ¹¹ Whenever Moses ^(F)held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. ¹² But Moses' hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and ^(G)Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. ¹³ And ^(H)Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword.

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of ^(I)Joshua, that ^(J)I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” ¹⁵ And Moses ^(K)built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner, ¹⁶ saying, “A hand upon the throne^[a] of the Lord! ^(L)The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”