Exodus 17:9-16

English Standard Version

⁹ So Moses said to ^(A)Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with ^(B)the staff of God in my hand.” ¹⁰ So ^(C)Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and ^(D)Hur went up to the top of the hill. ¹¹ Whenever Moses ^(E)held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. ¹² But Moses' hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and ^(F)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. ¹³ And ^(G)Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword.

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of ^(H)Joshua, that ^(I)I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” ¹⁵ And Moses ^(J)built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner, ¹⁶ saying, “A hand upon the throne^[a] of the Lord! ^(K)The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”