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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/exodus/17.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Water from the Rock</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and 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>Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So Moses cried to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking 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>Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, 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 name of the place Massah<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Massah means testing">a</a></sup></span> and Meribah,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Meribah means quarreling">b</a></sup></span> because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> by saying, “Is the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> among us or not?”</p> <p class="heading">Israel Defeats Amalek</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> Is My Banner, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>saying, “A hand upon the throne<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A slight change would yield upon the banner">c</a></sup></span> of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>! The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> <i class="catch-word">Massah</i> means <i>testing</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> <i class="catch-word">Meribah</i> means <i>quarreling</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> A slight change would yield <i><span class="catch-word">upon the</span> banner</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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