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.

Cross-references · 25

• Exod 34:27Yahweh said to Moses, “Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
• 1 Sam 30:17David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.
• 1 Sam 30:1When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,
• Num 24:20He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, “Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction.”
• Deut 25:17–19Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt;
• Num 33:2Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh. These are their journeys according to their goings out.
• 2 Sam 8:12of Syria, of Moab, of the children of Ammon, of the Philistines, of Amalek, and of the plunder of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
• Exod 12:14This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
• 1 Sam 15:2–3Yahweh of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way, when he came up out of Egypt.
• Exod 13:9It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.
• Exod 24:4Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
• 1 Sam 15:7–8Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.
• Josh 4:7then you shall tell them, ‘Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant. When it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.’”
• Hag 2:2–3“Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
• Prov 10:7The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
• 1 Sam 27:8–9David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, on the way to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.
• 2 Sam 1:1After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag;
• Job 19:23“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
• Ezra 9:14shall we again break your commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?
• 1 Sam 15:18and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’
• Ps 9:6The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
• Deut 31:9Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and to all the elders of Israel.
• Job 18:17His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
• 2 Sam 1:8–16He said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
• 1 Chr 4:43They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.

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