Deuteronomy 25:17 BSB

Deuteronomy 25:17

Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt;

KJV

Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;

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Commentary

1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Out of Egypt - Which circumstance greatly aggravates their sin, that they should do thus to a people, who had been long exercised with sore afflictions, to whom pity was due by the laws of nature and humanity, and for whose rescue God had in so glorious a manner appeared, which they could not be ignorant of.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
זָכ֕וֹר	za.Khor	remember	H2142 →
אֵ֛ת	'et	<obj.>	H853 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	[that] which	H834 →
עָשָׂ֥ה	'a.Sah	it did	H6213 →
לְךָ֖	le.Kha	to <the> you
עֲמָלֵ֑ק	'a.ma.Lek	Amalek	H6002 →
בַּדֶּ֖רֶךְ	ba.De.rekh	on the way	H1870 →
בְּצֵאתְכֶ֥ם	be.tze.te.Khem	when came out you	H3318 →
מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃	mi.mitz.Ra.yim	from Egypt	H4714 →

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

H2142zakhorremember230×

The walk

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Where the connections lead

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
Numbers 24:20
Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”
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.”
- Exodus 17:8
  After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.
- Judges 6:3
  Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
- 1 Samuel 14:48
  He fought valiantly and defeated the Amalekites, delivering Israel from the hands of its plunderers.
- 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.

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