Deuteronomy Chapter 25 verse 17 Holy Bible
Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt;
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Keep in mind what Amalek did to you on your way from Egypt;
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Remember what Amalek did unto thee on the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt;
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Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
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Remember what Amalek did to thee by the way, when ye had come forth from Egypt;
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Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;
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`Remember that which Amalek hath done to thee in the way, in your going out from Egypt,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 17-19. - Whilst in their intercourse with each other the law of love and brotherly kindness was to predominate, it was to be otherwise in regard to the enemies of God and his people. Them they were to overcome by force; wickedness was to be removed by the extinction of the wicked. Moses has already repeatedly reminded the Israelites that they had utterly to destroy the wicked nations of Canaan; and he here closes this discourse by reminding them that there was a nation outside of Canaan which was also doomed, and which they were to root out. This was Amalek, which had attacked the Israelites in their journey at Rephidim, and had taken advantage of their exhausted condition to harass their rear and destroy those who, faint and weary, had lagged behind. For this they had been already punished by the Israelites, who, led on by Joshua, had turned upon them and discomfited them with the edge of the sword. This, however, was not enough; Amalek was to be utterly destroyed, and this the Israelites were to effect as soon as the Lord had given them rest in the Promised Land. It was not, however, till the time of David that this was done.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersDeuteronomy 25:17-19. AMALEK TO BE EXTERMINATED.At the end of all the precepts of humanity, the extermination of that people which is presented to us as the incarnation of inhumanity is decreed.(18) He . . . smote the hindmost . . .--These details are not given in Exodus 17. Amalek's attack follows the appearance of the stream of water from Horeb. There was nothing more natural than that the faint and weary should stay behind at the water side. There the Amalekites appear to have found them and cruelly massacred them.(19) Thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek.--This decree was entrusted to Joshua in the first instance, as the "servant of the Book" (Exodus 17:14); here it is enjoined upon the nation of Israel. It was carried out in several stages: by Barak and Gideon (Judges 5:14; Judges 6:3; Judges 7:12, &c.), by Saul and Samuel (1 Samuel 15), by David (1Samuel 27:8-9; 1Samuel 30:17), by the Simeonites (1Chronicles 4:42-43), and lastly by Esther, who exterminated the Agagites in Haman's house. No doubt any remnant of Amalek in the Persian empire under Mordecai would have shared Haman's fate. . . .
