Exodus 17:14

Yahweh commands Moses to write this as a memorial and tell Joshua that God will utterly blot out Amalek's memory. God pledges final judgment on a persistent enemy.

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• Exod 34:27The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
• 1 Sam 30:17And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.
• 1 Sam 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.
• Num 24:20Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”
• Deut 25:17–19Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,
• Num 33:2At the LORD’s command, Moses recorded the stages of their journey. These are the stages listed by their starting points:
• 2 Sam 8:12from Edom and Moab, from the Ammonites and Philistines and Amalekites, and from the spoil of Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
• Exod 12:14And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.
• 1 Sam 15:2–3This 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.
• Exod 13:9It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
• Exod 24:4And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early the next morning he got up and built an altar at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
• 1 Sam 15:7–8Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.
• Josh 4:7you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever.”
• Hag 2:2–3“Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and also to the remnant of the people. Ask them,
• Prov 10:7The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
• 1 Sam 27:8–9Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)
• 2 Sam 1:1After the death of Saul, David returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days.
• Job 19:23I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
• Ezra 9:14shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? Would You not become so angry with us as to wipe us out, leaving no remnant or survivor?
• 1 Sam 15:18and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’
• Ps 9:6The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.
• Deut 31:9So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.
• Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
• 2 Sam 1:8–16‘Who are you?’ he asked. So I told him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
• 1 Chr 4:43and struck down the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped. And they have lived there to this day.

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