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2 Chronicles 20 2
Messengers came and told Jehoshaphat,“ A vast army from Edom is marching against you from beyond the Dead Sea. They are already at Hazazon tamar.”( This was another name for En gedi.)
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Genesis 20:1
Abraham moved south to the Negev and lived for a while between Kadesh and Shur, and then he moved on to Gerar. While living there as a foreigner,
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Genesis 16:14
So that well was named Beer lahai roi( which means“ well of the Living One who sees me”). It can still be found between Kadesh and Bered.
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Genesis 36:16
Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. These are the clan leaders in the land of Edom who descended from Eliphaz. All these were descendants of Esau’s wife Adah.
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Exodus 17:8-16
While the people of Israel were still at Rephidim, the warriors of Amalek attacked them.Moses commanded Joshua,“ Choose some men to go out and fight the army of Amalek for us. Tomorrow, I will stand at the top of the hill, holding the staff of God in my hand.”So Joshua did what Moses had commanded and fought the army of Amalek. Meanwhile, Moses, Aaron, and Hur climbed to the top of a nearby hill.As long as Moses held up the staff in his hand, the Israelites had the advantage. But whenever he dropped his hand, the Amalekites gained the advantage.Moses’ arms soon became so tired he could no longer hold them up. So Aaron and Hur found a stone for him to sit on. Then they stood on each side of Moses, holding up his hands. So his hands held steady until sunset.As a result, Joshua overwhelmed the army of Amalek in battle.After the victory, the Lord instructed Moses,“ Write this down on a scroll as a permanent reminder, and read it aloud to Joshua: I will erase the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”Moses built an altar there and named it Yahweh Nissi( which means“ the Lord is my banner”).He said,“ They have raised their fist against the Lord’s throne, so now the Lord will be at war with Amalek generation after generation.”
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Numbers 14:43
When you face the Amalekites and Canaanites in battle, you will be slaughtered. The Lord will abandon you because you have abandoned the Lord.”
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Numbers 20:1
In the first month of the year, the whole community of Israel arrived in the wilderness of Zin and camped at Kadesh. While they were there, Miriam died and was buried.
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1 Samuel 27 1-1 Samuel 27 12
But David kept thinking to himself,“ Someday Saul is going to get me. The best thing I can do is escape to the Philistines. Then Saul will stop hunting for me in Israelite territory, and I will finally be safe.”So David took his 600 men and went over and joined Achish son of Maoch, the king of Gath.David and his men and their families settled there with Achish at Gath. David brought his two wives along with him— Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, Nabal’s widow from Carmel.Word soon reached Saul that David had fled to Gath, so he stopped hunting for him.One day David said to Achish,“ If it is all right with you, we would rather live in one of the country towns instead of here in the royal city.”So Achish gave him the town of Ziklag( which still belongs to the kings of Judah to this day),and they lived there among the Philistines for a year and four months.David and his men spent their time raiding the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites— people who had lived near Shur, toward the land of Egypt, since ancient times.David did not leave one person alive in the villages he attacked. He took the sheep, goats, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing before returning home to see King Achish.“ Where did you make your raid today?” Achish would ask. And David would reply,“ Against the south of Judah, the Jerahmeelites, and the Kenites.”No one was left alive to come to Gath and tell where he had really been. This happened again and again while he was living among the Philistines.Achish believed David and thought to himself,“ By now the people of Israel must hate him bitterly. Now he will have to stay here and serve me forever!”
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Numbers 24:20
Then Balaam looked over toward the people of Amalek and delivered this message:“ Amalek was the greatest of nations, but its destiny is destruction!”
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1 Samuel 15 1-1 Samuel 15 35
One day Samuel said to Saul,“ It was the Lord who told me to anoint you as king of his people, Israel. Now listen to this message from the Lord!This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has declared: I have decided to settle accounts with the nation of Amalek for opposing Israel when they came from Egypt.Now go and completely destroy the entire Amalekite nation— men, women, children, babies, cattle, sheep, goats, camels, and donkeys.”So Saul mobilized his army at Telaim. There were 200,000 soldiers from Israel and 10,000 men from Judah.Then Saul and his army went to a town of the Amalekites and lay in wait in the valley.Saul sent this warning to the Kenites:“ Move away from where the Amalekites live, or you will die with them. For you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites packed up and left.Then Saul slaughtered the Amalekites from Havilah all the way to Shur, east of Egypt.He captured Agag, the Amalekite king, but completely destroyed everyone else.Saul and his men spared Agag’s life and kept the best of the sheep and goats, the cattle, the fat calves, and the lambs— everything, in fact, that appealed to them. They destroyed only what was worthless or of poor quality.Then the Lord said to Samuel,“ I am sorry that I ever made Saul king, for he has not been loyal to me and has refused to obey my command.” Samuel was so deeply moved when he heard this that he cried out to the Lord all night.Early the next morning Samuel went to find Saul. Someone told him,“ Saul went to the town of Carmel to set up a monument to himself; then he went on to Gilgal.”When Samuel finally found him, Saul greeted him cheerfully.“ May the Lord bless you,” he said.“ I have carried out the Lord’s command!”“ Then what is all the bleating of sheep and goats and the lowing of cattle I hear?” Samuel demanded.“ It’s true that the army spared the best of the sheep, goats, and cattle,” Saul admitted.“ But they are going to sacrifice them to the Lord your God. We have destroyed everything else.”Then Samuel said to Saul,“ Stop! Listen to what the Lord told me last night!”“ What did he tell you?” Saul asked.And Samuel told him,“ Although you may think little of yourself, are you not the leader of the tribes of Israel? The Lord has anointed you king of Israel.And the Lord sent you on a mission and told you,‘ Go and completely destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, until they are all dead.’Why haven’t you obeyed the Lord? Why did you rush for the plunder and do what was evil in the Lord’s sight?”“ But I did obey the Lord,” Saul insisted.“ I carried out the mission he gave me. I brought back King Agag, but I destroyed everyone else.Then my troops brought in the best of the sheep, goats, cattle, and plunder to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”But Samuel replied,“ What is more pleasing to the Lord: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams.Rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft, and stubbornness as bad as worshiping idols. So because you have rejected the command of the Lord, he has rejected you as king.”Then Saul admitted to Samuel,“ Yes, I have sinned. I have disobeyed your instructions and the Lord’s command, for I was afraid of the people and did what they demanded.But now, please forgive my sin and come back with me so that I may worship the Lord.”But Samuel replied,“ I will not go back with you! Since you have rejected the Lord’s command, he has rejected you as king of Israel.”As Samuel turned to go, Saul tried to hold him back and tore the hem of his robe.And Samuel said to him,“ The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to someone else— one who is better than you.And he who is the Glory of Israel will not lie, nor will he change his mind, for he is not human that he should change his mind!”Then Saul pleaded again,“ I know I have sinned. But please, at least honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel by coming back with me so that I may worship the Lord your God.”So Samuel finally agreed and went back with him, and Saul worshiped the Lord.Then Samuel said,“ Bring King Agag to me.” Agag arrived full of hope, for he thought,“ Surely the worst is over, and I have been spared!”But Samuel said,“ As your sword has killed the sons of many mothers, now your mother will be childless.” And Samuel cut Agag to pieces before the Lord at Gilgal.Then Samuel went home to Ramah, and Saul returned to his house at Gibeah of Saul.Samuel never went to meet with Saul again, but he mourned constantly for him. And the Lord was sorry he had ever made Saul king of Israel.
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Numbers 14:45
Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in those hills came down and attacked them and chased them back as far as Hormah.
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Deuteronomy 1:19
“ Then, just as the Lord our God commanded us, we left Mount Sinai and traveled through the great and terrifying wilderness, as you yourselves remember, and headed toward the hill country of the Amorites. When we arrived at Kadesh barnea,
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Deuteronomy 1:46
So you stayed there at Kadesh for a long time.
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Genesis 36:12
Timna, the concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, gave birth to a son named Amalek. These are the descendants of Esau’s wife Adah.
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Joshua 15:62
Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En gedi— six towns with their surrounding villages.
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Numbers 13:26
to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran. They reported to the whole community what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had taken from the land.
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1 Samuel 30 1-1 Samuel 30 31
Three days later, when David and his men arrived home at their town of Ziklag, they found that the Amalekites had made a raid into the Negev and Ziklag; they had crushed Ziklag and burned it to the ground.They had carried off the women and children and everyone else but without killing anyone.When David and his men saw the ruins and realized what had happened to their families,they wept until they could weep no more.David’s two wives, Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal from Carmel, were among those captured.David was now in great danger because all his men were very bitter about losing their sons and daughters, and they began to talk of stoning him. But David found strength in the Lord his God.Then he said to Abiathar the priest,“ Bring me the ephod!” So Abiathar brought it.Then David asked the Lord,“ Should I chase after this band of raiders? Will I catch them?” And the Lord told him,“ Yes, go after them. You will surely recover everything that was taken from you!”So David and his 600 men set out, and they came to the brook Besor.But 200 of the men were too exhausted to cross the brook, so David continued the pursuit with 400 men.Along the way they found an Egyptian man in a field and brought him to David. They gave him some bread to eat and water to drink.They also gave him part of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins, for he hadn’t had anything to eat or drink for three days and nights. Before long his strength returned.“ To whom do you belong, and where do you come from?” David asked him.“ I am an Egyptian— the slave of an Amalekite,” he replied.“ My master abandoned me three days ago because I was sick.We were on our way back from raiding the Kerethites in the Negev, the territory of Judah, and the land of Caleb, and we had just burned Ziklag.”“ Will you lead me to this band of raiders?” David asked. The young man replied,“ If you take an oath in God’s name that you will not kill me or give me back to my master, then I will guide you to them.”So he led David to them, and they found the Amalekites spread out across the fields, eating and drinking and dancing with joy because of the vast amount of plunder they had taken from the Philistines and the land of Judah.David and his men rushed in among them and slaughtered them throughout that night and the entire next day until evening. None of the Amalekites escaped except 400 young men who fled on camels.David got back everything the Amalekites had taken, and he rescued his two wives.Nothing was missing: small or great, son or daughter, nor anything else that had been taken. David brought everything back.He also recovered all the flocks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock.“ This plunder belongs to David!” they said.Then David returned to the brook Besor and met up with the 200 men who had been left behind because they were too exhausted to go with him. They went out to meet David and his men, and David greeted them joyfully.But some evil troublemakers among David’s men said,“ They didn’t go with us, so they can’t have any of the plunder we recovered. Give them their wives and children, and tell them to be gone.”But David said,“ No, my brothers! Don’t be selfish with what the Lord has given us. He has kept us safe and helped us defeat the band of raiders that attacked us.Who will listen when you talk like this? We share and share alike— those who go to battle and those who guard the equipment.”From then on David made this a decree and regulation for Israel, and it is still followed today.When he arrived at Ziklag, David sent part of the plunder to the elders of Judah, who were his friends.“ Here is a present for you, taken from the Lord’s enemies,” he said.The gifts were sent to the people of the following towns David had visited: Bethel, Ramoth negev, Jattir,Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa,Racal, the towns of the Jerahmeelites, the towns of the Kenites,Hormah, Bor ashan, Athach,Hebron, and all the other places David and his men had visited.
