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    Amalek (redirect from Amalekites)
    successful mission against the Amalekites to recover "all that the Amalekites had carried away". In 2 Samuel 1:5–10, an Amalekite tells David that he found...
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    the Amlicites and Amalekites are the same group based on timing and spelling variations in Book of Mormon manuscripts. The Amalekites, a group introduced...
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    successful mission against the Amalekites to recover "all that the Amalekites had carried away". In 2 Samuel 1:5–10, an Amalekite tells David that he found...
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  • rather than the Amalekites being the enemy.[citation needed] The Books of Samuel go on to mention that as a result, the people the Amalekites took were released...
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  • of the Amalekites whereby it is viewed as meaning either a literal descendant of Agag or a symbolic term for an antisemite, due to the Amalekites being...
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    with the Amalekites' unprovoked attack against the Israelites (Exodus 17:8). Afterwards, Yahweh announced the extermination of the Amalekites and called...
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    uses the staff in the battle at Rephidim between the Israelites and the Amalekites (Exodus 17:8–16). When he holds up his arms holding the "rod of God" the...
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    Mount Seir is also given as the location where the remnants "of the Amalekites that had escaped" were annihilated by five hundred Simeonites (1 Chronicles...
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    forewarned the Kenites who were living among the Amalekites to leave, Saul goes to war and defeats the Amalekites. Saul kills all the men, women, children and...
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    Joshua's Battle Against the Amalekites or Joshua's Victory over the Amalekites is a c. 1625 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Nicolas Poussin...
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    companion of Moses and Aaron watching the Battle of Rephidim against the Amalekites. He aided Aaron to hold up the hands of Moses when Moses realised that...
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    Cowdery spelled both Amlicites and Amalekites multiple different ways, Amlicite always has three syllables and Amalekite always has four. Amlici and the...
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  • the progenitor not only of the Edomites but of the Kenizzites and the Amalekites as well. Reuven Chaim Klein summarizes how the various Medieval Jewish...
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    630–540 BCE. This chapter contains Saul disobedience in dealing with the Amalekites. This is within a section comprising 1 Samuel 7–15 which records the rise...
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    the progenitor not only of the Edomites but of the Kenizzites and the Amalekites as well. Esau had five sons: By Adah: Eliphaz By Aholibamah: Jeush, Jaalam...
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    vengeance on Agag for the cruelties they had undergone at the hands of the Amalekites, who, to mock at the Israelites, their God, and the rite of circumcision...
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    appears in 1 Samuel 15, where Saul "totally destroyed" (verse 8, NIV) the Amalekites with the sword, but spared their king, Agag, and kept "the best of the...
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  • the CEF's lesson plan on the Amalekites tells children that God wanted Saul "to go and completely destroy the Amalekites – people, animals, every living...
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    under heaven. During the campaign against the Amalekites, King Saul spared Agag, the king of the Amalekites, and the best of their livestock. Saul told...
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    similar event is described as taking place near Kadesh. Afterwards, the Amalekites attack the Israelites encamped at Rephidim, but are defeated. The Israelites...
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  • given by Moses to the altar which he built to celebrate the defeat of the Amalekites at Rephidim. The first word of the phrase is the Tetragrammaton יהוה,...
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    Judah, to which David gives part of the spoils of his combat with the Amalekites. Bethuel appears nine times in nine verses in the Hebrew Bible, all in...
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    sacrifice and later disobeys a divine command both to kill all of the Amalekites and to destroy their confiscated property. Consequently, God sends the...
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    Hebrew Bible, there is just war and preventive war which includes the Amalekites, Canaanites, Moabites, and the record in Exodus, Deuteronomy, Joshua,...
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    one severe struggle, in union with their kindred the Ammonites and the Amalekites (Judges 3:12–30). The Benjaminite shofet Ehud ben Gera assassinated the...
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    but rather by Moses' ability to keep his arms raised. Here also, the Amalekites are perceived as an especially bitter enemy, such that God promises to...
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    monarchial source by the story of a raid by Amalekites on the town of Ziklag, and the subsequent defeat of the Amalekites by David. There are some similarities...
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  • God commanded Moses to inscribe an Israelite military victory over the Amalekites in a book and recount it later in the hearing of his successor Joshua...
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    it burned by the Amalekites and its inhabitants carried away. The attack was probably in retaliation for David's raid on the Amalekites (1 Samuel 27:8,...
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    was buried on Ephraimite land, in Pirathon, in the hill-country of the Amalekites. Abdon is venerated in Catholic Church as a saint. His feast day is 1...
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