1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed
from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the
commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim:and there was no water
for the people to drink.
(Every trouble we
encounter gives us an opportunity to complain about the problem or to
turn to God with the problem. This scripture is an example for us.)
2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink.
And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?
3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
(They
forgot the hardship in Egypt and how glad they were at the time God
delivered them from the Egyptians. Now they just wanted a flesh and
blood person to blame. And this was going to be their destruction in
the end ...
Jude ... 5 I will
therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the
Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward
destroyed them that believed not.)
4 And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
5
And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with
thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the
river, take in thine hand, and go.
6
Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou
shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the
people may drink.
And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?
8
Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 9 And Moses said
unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek:to morrow I
will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. 10
So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek:and
Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 And it came to
pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed:and when he let
down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses 'hands were heavy; and
they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron
and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on
the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the
sun.
13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 14 And the Lord said unto Moses,
Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of
Joshua:for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under
heaven.
15 And Moses built an altar, and
called the name of it Jehovahnissi:16 For he said, Because the Lord
hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to
generation.