For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
16. For he said, Because the Lord. “Truly the hand is upon the throne of Jehovah.” — Lat. Margin, A. V., “Because the hand of Amalek is against the throne of the Lord, therefore,” etc. Heb.,” The hand upon the throne of the Lord.” Holden agrees with Rosenmuller, and, as he says, the most eminent Biblical critics, in preferring the explanation of the margin, A. V.
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.
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Commenting on Exodus 17:8-16
For he said, because the Lord hath sworn,.... So some Jewish writers (b) take it for an oath, as we do; or "because the hand is on the throne of the Lord" (c); which the Targum of Jonathan, Jarchi, and Aben Ezra, interpret of the hand of the Lord being lifted up, of his swearing by the throne of his glory; but, as Drusius observes...