Deuteronomy 25:18

How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were feeble behind thee, when thou was faint and weary; and he feared not God.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

In Context

17Remember what 'Amalek did unto thee, by the way, at your coming forth out of Egypt;

19And it shall come to pass, when the Lord thy God giveth thee rest from all thy enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of 'Amalek from under the heavens: thou shalt not forget.

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Cross References

Exodus 17:8Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors that had been before me had made it heavy for the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver: yea, even their young men ruled over the people; but I myself did not act so, because of the fear of God.

Proverbs 16:6Through kindness and truth is iniquity atoned for; and by the fear of the Lord [men] depart from evil.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 25:14-19

Amalek to Be Destroyed. ( b. c. 1451.) 13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God. 17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when… Read the whole commentary →

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