🔥WEB · Exodus 17:16
What does Exodus 17:16 mean?
"He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”"
— Exodus 17:16 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”
Moses built an altar, and called its name Yahweh our Banner.
He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”
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