Destroy the Amalekites

^17 (A)“Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt,

Victory over the Amalekites^(A)

^8 (B)Now Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. ⁹ And Moses said to Joshua, “Choose us some men and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with ^(C)the rod of God in my hand.” ¹⁰ So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. ¹¹ And so it was, when Moses ^(D)held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. ¹² But Moses’ hands became ^[a]heavy; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. And Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. ¹³ So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, ^(E)“Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that ^(F)I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.” ¹⁵ And Moses built an altar and called its name, ^[b]The-Lord-Is-My-Banner; ¹⁶ for he said, “Because ^[c]the Lord has ^(G)sworn: the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”

^17 (A)“Harass the Midianites, and ^[a]attack them; ¹⁸ for they harassed you with their ^(B)schemes^[b] by which they seduced you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a leader of Midian, their sister, who was killed in the day of the plague because of Peor.”

²⁰ Then he looked on Amalek, and he took up his oracle and said: