1 Samuel 14:48 BSB — MannaFest

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10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּ֣עַשׂ	vai.Ya.'as	and he did	H6213 →
חַ֔יִל	Cha.yil	strength	H2428 →
וַיַּ֖ךְ	vai.Yakh	and he defeated	H5221 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
עֲמָלֵ֑ק	'a.ma.Lek	Amalek	H6002 →
וַיַּצֵּ֥ל	vai.ya.Tzel	and he delivered	H5337 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
מִיַּ֥ד	mi.Yad	from [the] hand of	H3027 →
שֹׁסֵֽהוּ׃ ס	sho.Se.hu	[those who] plundered it	H8154 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 17:14
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
leads to
- Exodus 34:27
  The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
- 1 Samuel 30:1
  On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.
- 1 Samuel 30:17
  And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.
- Numbers 24:20
  Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”
- Numbers 33:2
  At the LORD’s command, Moses recorded the stages of their journey. These are the stages listed by their starting points:
Through
Deuteronomy 25:19
When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of…
leads to
- Exodus 17:14
  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
- Deuteronomy 9:14
  Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
- Exodus 17:16
  “Indeed,” he said, “a hand was lifted up toward the throne of the LORD. The LORD will war against Amalek from generation to generation.”

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

1 Samuel 15:7Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.Exodus 17:14Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”Deuteronomy 25:19When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!1 Samuel 15:3–7Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”Numbers 13:29The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”Numbers 24:20Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”

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