Exo 17:16, 1Sa 15:2-3, Psa 10:11, Isa 43:25, Jer 17:1, 31:34 | TSK | STEP | Because, etc. or, Because the hand of Amalek is against thethrone of the Lord, therefore, etc. the Lord, etc. Heb. the hand upon the throne of the Lord. will have war.

Exodus 17:16

Because, etc. or, Because the hand of Amalek is against thethrone of the Lord, therefore, etc. the Lord, etc. Heb. the hand upon the throne of the Lord.

Isa 66:1; Ac 7:49

will have war.

Ps 21:8-11

1 Samuel 15:2-3

I remember.

Jer 31:34; Ho 7:2; Am 8:7

Amalek.

Ex 17:8-16; Nu 24:20; De 25:17-19

Now go.The Amalekites, a people of Arabia Petræa, who inhabited a tract of country on the frontiers of Egypt and Canaan, had acted with great cruelty towards the Israelites on their coming out of Egypt, and God then purposed that Amalek, as a nation, should be blotted out from under heaven; but it had been spared till it had filled up the measure of its iniquities, and now this purpose is carried into effect by Saul, upwards of 400 years afterwards! Nothing could justify such an exterminating decree but the absolute authority of God; and this was given: all the reasons of it we do not know; but this we know well, the Judge of all the earth doeth right.

utterly destroy.

Le 27:28,29; Nu 24:20; De 13:15,16; 20:16-18; Jos 6:17-21

slay.

Ex 20:5; Nu 31:17; Isa 14:21,22

ox and sheep.

Ge 3:17,18; Ro 8:20-22