Exodus 17:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 17

⁹And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.

Exodus 17:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 4:20
And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
Deuteronomy 32:44
And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
Exodus 24:13
And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
Exodus 4:2
And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
Hebrews 4:8
For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-16)

We have here the story of the war with Amalek, which, we may suppose, was the first that was recorded in the book of the wars of the Lord, Num. 21:14. Amalek was the first of the nations that Israel fought with, Num. 24:20. Observe, I. Amalek’s attempt: They came out, and fought with Israel, Exod. 17:8. The Amalekites were the posterity of Esau, who hated Jacob because of the birthright and blessi…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. Moses said unto Joshua--or, “Jesus” (Ac 7:45; He 4:8). This is the earliest notice of a young warrior destined to act a prominent part in the history of Israel. He went with a number of picked men. There is not here a wide open plain on which the battle took place, as according to the rules of modern warfare. The Amalekites were a nomadic tribe, making an irregular attack on a multitude probabl…