Exodus 17:8 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּבֹ֖א	vai.ya.Vo'	and it came	H935 →
עֲמָלֵ֑ק	'a.ma.Lek	Amalek	H6002 →
וַיִּלָּ֥חֶם	vai.yi.La.chem	and it joined battle	H3898 →
עִם־	'im-	with	H5973 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
בִּרְפִידִֽם׃	bir.fi.Dim	at Rephidim	H7508 →

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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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
1 Samuel 15:2
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I witnessed what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they ambushed them on their way up from Egypt.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 25:17–19
  Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Exodus 17:8–16
  After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Numbers 24:20
  Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”
- Hosea 7:2
  But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.
Through
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.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 15:7
  Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 29:11
  So David and his men got up early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
- Joshua 11:6
  Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for by this time tomorrow I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn…
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.”

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.

Deuteronomy 25:17–19Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,Genesis 36:12Additionally, Timna, a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, gave birth to Amalek. These are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.1 Samuel 15:2This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I witnessed what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they ambushed them on their way up from Egypt.Numbers 24:20Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”1 Samuel 30:1On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.Psalms 83:7of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.Genesis 36:16Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. They are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom, and they are the grandsons of Adah.Exodus 19:2After they had set out from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.1 Samuel 27:8Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)Exodus 17:1Then the whole congregation of Israel left the Desert of Sin, moving from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.Judges 12:15Then Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, died, and he was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

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