17:1 Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed by ①stages from the wilderness of Sin, according to the ②command of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink.
▷ ①Lit their journeyings ②Lit mouth
17:2 So the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water so that we may drink!” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?”
17:3 But the people were thirsty for water there; and ①they grumbled against Moses and said, “Why is it that you have you brought us up from Egypt, to kill ②us and ③our children and ④our livestock with thirst?”
▷ ①Lit the people ②Lit me ③Lit my ④Lit my
17:4 So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, “What am I to do with this people? A little more and they will stone me!”
17:5 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pass before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
17:6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
17:7 Then he named the place ①Massah and ②Meribah because of the quarrel of the sons of Israel, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us, or not?”
▷ ①I.e., test ②I.e., quarrel
17:8 Then Amalek came and fought against Israel at Rephidim.
17:9 So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us and go out, fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will station myself on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”
17:10 Joshua did just as Moses ①told him, ②and fought against Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
▷ ①Lit said to ②Lit to fight
17:11 So it came about, when Moses held his hand up, that Israel prevailed; but when he let his hand ①down, Amalek prevailed.
▷ ①Lit rest
17:12 And Moses’ hands were heavy. So they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other. So his hands were steady until the sun set.
17:13 And Joshua ①defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
▷ ①Lit weakened
17:14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this in ①a book as a memorial and ②recite it to Joshua, ③that I will utterly wipe out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
▷ ①Lit the book ②Lit place it in the ears of ③Or for
17:15 And Moses built an altar and named it The LORD is My Banner;
17:16 and he said, “ ①Because the LORD has sworn, the LORD will have war against Amalek from generation to generation.”
▷ ①Or Because a hand is against the throne of the LORD; lit Because a hand upon the throne of YAH