KJV King James Version
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.
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Exodus 17:9
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.”
WEB World English Bible
Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.”
ASV American Standard Version
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 my hand.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and Moses saith unto Joshua, ‘Choose for us men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow I am standing on the top of the hill, and the rod of God in my hand.’
Surrounding context — Exodus 17
6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
9 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.
10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12 But Moses’ hands [were] heavy; and they took a stone, and put [it] under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
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וַיֹּ֨אמֶרH559 · a.marto sayמֹשֶׁ֤הH4872 · mo.shehMosesאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)יְהוֹשֻׁ֙עַ֙H3091 · ye.ho.shu.aJoshuaבְּחַר־H977 · ba.charto chooseלָ֣נוּH9035 · nuusאֲנָשִׁ֔יםH582 · e.noshhumanוְצֵ֖אH3318 · ya.tsato come out: comeהִלָּחֵ֣םH3898 · la.chamto fightבַּעֲמָלֵ֑קH6002 · a.ma.leqAmalekמָחָ֗רH4279 · ma.chartomorrowאָנֹכִ֤יH595 · a.no.khiIנִצָּב֙H5324 · na.tsavto standעַל־H5921 · aluponרֹ֣אשׁH7218 · roshheadהַגִּבְעָ֔הH1389 · giv.ahGibeath-(elohim)וּמַטֵּ֥הH4294 · mat.tehtribe: rodהָאֱלֹהִ֖יםH430 · e.lo.himGodבְּיָדִֽי׃H3027 · yadhand
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 32:44And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.Exodus 24:13And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.Exodus 4:20And 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.Exodus 4:2And the LORD said unto him, What [is] that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.Hebrews 4:8For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.Numbers 31:3-4And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.Numbers 11:28And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, [one] of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.Acts 7:45Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;Exodus 17:13And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.Numbers 13:16These [are] the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
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