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The battle began with the Amalekites' unprovoked attack against the Israelites (Exodus 17:8). Afterwards, Yahweh announced the extermination of the Amalekites and called on Israel to defeat them, stating that Israel would experience peace with their enemies (Exodus 17:14, Deuteronomy 25:19). This was the first of several conflicts over several ...
Rephidim. Coordinates: 28°43′N 33°39′E. Moses holding up his arms during the Battle of Refidim, assisted by Hur and Aaron, in John Everett Millais ' Victory O Lord! (1871). Rephidim or Refidim ( Hebrew: רְפִידִים) is one of the places visited by the Israelites in the biblical account of the Exodus from Egypt .
According to the Hebrew Bible, Amalek was the son of Eliphaz (himself the son of Esau, ancestor of the Edomites and the brother of Israel) and Eliphaz's concubine Timna. Timna was a Horite and sister of Lotan. [2] According to a midrash, Timna was a princess who tried to convert to Judaism. However, she was rejected by Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Ziklag. Ziklag ( Hebrew: צִקְלַג, romanized : Ṣiqlạḡ) is the biblical name of a town that was located in the Negev region in the south-west of what was the Kingdom of Judah. It was a provincial town within the Philistine kingdom of Gath when Achish was king. [1] Its exact location has not been identified with any certainty.
Biblical Hittites. The Hittites, also spelled Hethites, were a group of people mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Under the names בני-חת ( bny-ḥt "children of Heth", who was the son of Canaan) and חתי ( ḥty "native of Heth") they are described several times as living in or near Canaan between the time of Abraham (estimated to be between ...
The chapter recounts that Israel had the advantage over Amalek as long as Moses, watching the battle from a vantage point, held his staff aloft. Matthew Henry considered that Jehovah-nissi (The Lord is my banner) "probably refers to the lifting up of the rod of God as a banner in this action. The presence and power of Jehovah were the banner ...
After these forty years, Israel fell under the subjection of Eglon, a king of Moab who defeated Israel with help from Ammon and Amalek (Judges 3:12–13). Burial site. A tomb traditionally regarded as belonging to Othniel Ben Knaz is located in Hebron in a traditional burial cave.
A similar command is given in 1 Samuel 15, where the prophet Samuel tells Saul—the first king of Israel—that God has ordered them to “Go and proscribe the sinful Amalekites; make war on them ...