WEBVTT 00:01.050 --> 00:05.930 Chapter 17 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the 00:05.930 --> 00:09.630 wilderness of sin, after their journeys according to the commandment of the Lord, 00:09.850 --> 00:11.070 and pitched in Rephidim. 00:11.330 --> 00:13.450 And there was no water for the people to drink. 00:13.750 --> 00:18.390 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. 00:18.570 --> 00:21.250 And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? 00:22.210 --> 00:23.690 Wherefore do ye tempt the Lord? 00:23.870 --> 00:25.670 And the people thirsted there for water. 00:25.910 --> 00:29.930 And the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this, that thou 00:29.930 --> 00:34.750 hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle 00:34.750 --> 00:35.490 with thirst? 00:35.770 --> 00:39.670 And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? 00:40.190 --> 00:41.910 They be almost ready to stone me. 00:42.170 --> 00:46.390 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the 00:46.390 --> 00:49.830 elders of Israel, and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, 00:50.090 --> 00:51.370 take in thine hand, and go. 00:52.270 --> 00:57.370 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb, and thou shalt 00:57.370 --> 01:01.910 smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. 01:02.570 --> 01:05.310 And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 01:05.690 --> 01:10.430 And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the chiding of the 01:10.430 --> 01:14.410 children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord 01:14.410 --> 01:16.150 among us, or not? 01:16.250 --> 01:19.070 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 01:19.390 --> 01:25.070 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out, men, and go out, fight with Amalek. 01:25.810 --> 01:30.210 Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill, with the rod of God in mine hand. 01:30.410 --> 01:33.750 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek. 01:33.930 --> 01:37.050 And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 01:37.430 --> 01:41.030 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed. 01:41.290 --> 01:44.030 And when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 01:44.650 --> 01:48.910 But Moses' hands were heavy, and they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat 01:48.910 --> 01:49.370 thereon. 01:49.710 --> 01:53.890 And Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on 01:53.890 --> 01:54.550 the other side. 01:54.550 --> 01:57.670 And his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 01:58.090 --> 02:01.650 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 02:02.050 --> 02:06.730 And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it 02:06.730 --> 02:07.770 in the ears of Joshua. 02:08.490 --> 02:12.090 For I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. 02:12.470 --> 02:16.390 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-Nissi. 02:16.690 --> 02:21.650 For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek 02:21.650 --> 02:23.430 from generation to generation.