Exodus - 17

1 - And all the congregation of the children of Israel - journeyed from the wilderness of Sin - , after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim - : and there was no water for the people to drink.

2 - Wherefore the people did chide with Moses - , and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses - said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?

3 - And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses - , and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt - , to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

4 - And Moses - cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

5 - And the LORD said unto Moses - , Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel - ; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.

6 - Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb - ; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses - did so in the sight of the elders of Israel - .

7 - And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah - , because of the chiding of the children of Israel - , and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

8 - Then came Amalek - , and fought with Israel - in Rephidim - .

9 - And Moses - said unto Joshua - , Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek - : to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.

10 - So Joshua - did as Moses - had said to him, and fought with Amalek - : and Moses - , Aaron - , and Hur - went up to the top of the hill.

11 - And it came to pass, when Moses - held up his hand, that Israel - prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek - prevailed.

12 - But Moses - ' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron - and Hur - stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

13 - And Joshua - discomfited Amalek - and his people with the edge of the sword.

14 - And the LORD said unto Moses - , Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua - : for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek - from under heaven.

15 - And Moses - built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:

16 - For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek - from generation to generation.