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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 17 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Exodus 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/16.htm" title="Exodus 16">◄</a> Exodus 17 <a href="../exodus/18.htm" title="Exodus 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/exodus/17.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Water From the Rock</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the <span class="name">Lord</span> commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.”</p><p class="reg">Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the <span class="name">Lord</span> to the test?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then Moses cried out to the <span class="name">Lord</span>, “What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> answered Moses, “Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And he called the place Massah <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Massah means testing.">a</a></sup></span> and Meribah <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Meribah means quarreling.">b</a></sup></span> because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the <span class="name">Lord</span> saying, “Is the <span class="name">Lord</span> among us or not?”</p> <p class="sectionhead">The Amalekites Defeated</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Moses built an altar and called it The <span class="name">Lord</span> is my Banner. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He said, “Because hands were lifted up against <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or to">c</a></sup></span> the throne of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.">d</a></sup></span> the <span class="name">Lord</span> will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Massah</i> means <i>testing.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Meribah</i> means <i>quarreling.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>to</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotebot">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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