So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”
Amalek struck from behind at the weakest and most defenseless, a cowardly and malicious attack that defied the God who had just destroyed Egypt. But they struck at a camp guarded and supplied by miracles and knew not what they did.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 17:8-16
And Moses said unto Joshua,.... The son of Nun, who was his minister, and was a man of war from his youth, trained up in the art of war, and afterwards succeeded Moses, and was captain of the armies of Israel, and fought at the head of them, and subdued the Canaanites.
The Amalekites struck at Israel's rear in a cowardly, unprovoked assault, no injury had been given them. As descendants of Esau, they nursed an ancient grudge, and seeing God's blessings multiply upon Israel, they dared to defy the God who had just destroyed Egypt.
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Commenting on Exodus 17:8-16