17And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
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And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
And 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.
And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-20)Here is, I. The favour of God to Moses, in trusting him with the two tables of the testimony, which, though of common stone, were far more valuable than all the precious stones that adorned the breast-plate of Aaron. The topaz of Ethiopia could not equal them, Exod. 32:15 , 16 . God himself, without the ministry either of man or angel (for aught that appears), wrote the ten commandments on these t…
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