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**children** = sons.
**Sin** . Hebrew Bush.
**commandment** . Hebrew "mouth". Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause). App-6 . Mouth put for what is spoken by it. the LORD. Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 . Rephidim = reclining places. Two stations omitted here. Compare 17. [Numbers 33:12-14](../../../kjv/numbers/33/12-14) .

**chide** . Murmuring was good policy. They would not "dig" (as at Beer and Elim) = to "beg "they were not ashamed. "Give us water. "See note on [Exodus 15:24](../../../kjv/exodus/15/24) .
**Why chide . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 .
**wherefore** . Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, Sept, and Syriac, read "And why".
**tempt** = put to the proof. Hebrew from *nasah,* to smell, hence, to try. Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 .

**us** . Hebrew. *he.* Figure of speech *Heterosis (of'* Number). App-6 .

**they be almost ready** . Hebrew "yet a little and they will". Moses, David, Jeremiah, Stephen, Paul, and the Lord Jesus suffered from stoning or its threatening

**the LORD (Hebrew.** ***Jehovah.*** **said** . See note on [Exodus 3:7](../../../kjv/exodus/3/7) , and compare note on [Exodus 6:10](../../../kjv/exodus/6/10) .

**Behold** . Figure of speech *Asterismos.* *App-6* *.*
**I will stand** . Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 .
**rock** : a type of Christ. Frequently referred to ([Deuteronomy 32:4](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/4) , [Deuteronomy 32:15](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/15) , [Deuteronomy 32:18](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/18) , [Deuteronomy 32:31](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/31) , [Deuteronomy 32:37](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/37) ; [1 Samuel 2:2](../../../kjv/1-samuel/2/2) .[Psalms 18:2](../../../kjv/psalms/18/2); [Psalms 18:2](../../../kjv/psalms/18/2) ). Rock of life ([Deuteronomy 32:18](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/18) ): Salvation ([2 Samuel 22:47](../../../kjv/2-samuel/22/47) , &c.): Refuge ([Psalms 27:5](../../../kjv/psalms/27/5) ; [Psalms 62:6](../../../kjv/psalms/62/6) , [Psalms 62:7](../../../kjv/psalms/62/7) ): Rest and refreshment ([Isaiah 32:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/32/2) ).
**Horeb** . Compare [Exodus 3:1](../../../kjv/exodus/3/1) .
**smite** . Smitten only once. Compare [Isaiah 53:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/53/4) .[Zechariah 13:7](../../../kjv/zechariah/13/7) . Jehovah on the Rock = God in Christ ([2 Corinthians 5:19](../../../kjv/2-corinthians/5/19) ). No water till smitten ([Psalms 78:20](../../../kjv/psalms/78/20) . [John 7:38](../../../kjv/john/7/38) , [John 7:39](../../../kjv/john/7/39) ; [John 12:24](../../../kjv/john/12/24) ). water. Water from the rock. Fire out of the rock ([Judges 6:21](../../../kjv/judges/6/21) ). Honey from the rock ([Psalms 81:16](../../../kjv/psalms/81/16) ). Oil from the rock ([Deuteronomy 32:13](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/13) ).

**Massah** = Temptation. Tempting of God. Meribah = Strife. Striving with Moses.
**tempted.** Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* *App-6* *. (i.e.* tempting Jehovah to cut them off).

**Then came Amalek.** See on [Genesis 21:25](../../../kjv/genesis/21/25) and [Judges 5:11](../../../kjv/judges/5/11) . Amalek came to fight for the water. Compare [Deuteronomy 25:17](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/25/17) , [Deuteronomy 25:18](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/25/18) . Amalek came behind and attacked the rear, and he "feared not God", [Deuteronomy 25:8](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/25/8) .
**Amalek** , Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Part), App-6 , put for Amalekites. At Rephidim, they got water plus Amalek; at Meribah, water plus Edom.

**Joshua** . First occurance. (250 times in all). Hebrew. *Jehoshua.* Now fifty-three years of age. Hence a bondman in Egypt. Twenty-seven years younger than Moses. See App-50 .
**men** . Hebrew, plural of *'ish or 'enesh.* App-14 .
**fight** . There was a large population in the peninsula at this time. A wilderness, a place of pasture, not a desert.
**God** . Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .

**as** = according as.
**Moses** (prophet), Aaron (priest), Hur (royal tribe, Judah).
**Hur** . Hebrew noble or well-born. The son of Caleb, the son of Hezron, the son of Pharez, the son of Judah ([1 Chronicles 2:3](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/2/3) , [1 Chronicles 2:4](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/2/4) , [1 Chronicles 2:5](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/2/5) , [1 Chronicles 2:18](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/2/18) , [1 Chronicles 2:19](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/2/19) ). Josephus makes him the husband of Miriam and grandfather of Bezaleel ([Exodus 31:2](../../../kjv/exodus/31/2) ; [Exodus 35:30](../../../kjv/exodus/35/30) ; [Exodus 38:22](../../../kjv/exodus/38/22) ).

**when** = according as.
**hand** . Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint read "hands". Compare [Exodus 17:12](../../../kjv/exodus/17/12) .

**heavy** = weary.

**edge** . Hebrew mouth. Figure of speech *Prosopopoeia.* App-6 . sword in the Plain: Rod of God on the mount ([Exodus 17:9](../../../kjv/exodus/17/9) ): Jehovah above all ([Exodus 17:6](../../../kjv/exodus/17/6) ).

**the LORD** (Hebrew. *Jehovah.* said. See notes on [Exodus 3:7](../../../kjv/exodus/3/7) and [Exodus 6:10](../../../kjv/exodus/6/10) .
**Write** . First occurrence. The tablets found at Lachish and Tel-el-Amarna show that writing of a high order was fully developed before the time of Moses.
**in a book** . Hebrew "in the book" *(bassepher).* This writing afterward ordered for "the Book of the Law" ([Exodus 24:4](../../../kjv/exodus/24/4) , [Exodus 24:7](../../../kjv/exodus/24/7) ). See App-47 , where the history of that Book is traced from this passage to Malachi.
**put out** = blot out. Compare [Deuteronomy 25:19](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/25/19) . [Numbers 24:20](../../../kjv/numbers/24/20) .

**Jehovah-nissi** = " Jehovah [is] my banner. "One of the Jehovah titles. App-4 .

**LORD** = Jah. See App-4 .
**hath sworn** . The margins of Authorized Version and Revised Version show the perplexity caused by the *Ellipsis* . of the verb. "Surely the hand [lifted up] upon the banner of Jah [is to swear]: for the war of Jehovah against Amalek is to be from generation to generation". So it was. It was carried on by Ehud ([Judges 3:13-15](../../../kjv/judges/3/13-15) ), Barak ([Judges 5:14](../../../kjv/judges/5/14) ), Gideon ([Judges 6:3](../../../kjv/judges/6/3) ; [Judges 7:12-14](../../../kjv/judges/7/12-14) ), Saul ([1 Samuel 15:2-9](../../../kjv/1-samuel/15/2-9) , Compare [Exodus 17:11](../../../kjv/exodus/17/11) ), Samuel ([1 Samuel 15:32](../../../kjv/1-samuel/15/32) , [1 Samuel 15:33](../../../kjv/1-samuel/15/33) ), David ([1 Samuel 27:8](../../../kjv/1-samuel/27/8) ; [1 Samuel 30:1](../../../kjv/1-samuel/30/1) , [1 Samuel 30:17](../../../kjv/1-samuel/30/17) ; [2 Samuel 8:12](../../../kjv/2-samuel/8/12) ), Simeonites ([1 Chronicles 4:42](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/4/42) , [1 Chronicles 4:43](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/4/43) ), and Mordecai ([Esther 3:1-6](../../../kjv/esther/3/1-6) ; [Esther 9:7-10](../../../kjv/esther/9/7-10) ).

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