Difference between revisions of "Amalekites"

== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15410" /> ==

== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15410" /> ==

<p> A powerful people, who dwelt in [[Arabia]] Petraea, between the [[Dead]] [[Sea]] and the [[Red]] Sea, perhaps in moving troops. We cannot assign the place of their habitation, except in general it is apparent that they dwelt south of Palestine, between [[Mount]] [[Seir]] and the border of Egypt; and it does not appear that they possessed many cities, though one is mentioned in 1 [[Samuel]] 15:5 . They lived generally in migrating parties, in caves or in tents, like the Bedaween Arabs of the present day. The [[Israelites]] had scarcely passed the Red sea, when the Amelikites attacked them in the desert of Rephidim, and slew those who, through fatigue or weakness, lagged behind; and for this unprovoked assault on the people of God, the doom of extermination was passed upon them, [[Exodus]] 17:8-16 . They came again into conflict with a part of the Israelites on the border of the promised land, [[Numbers]] 14:45; and after 400 years, [[Saul]] attacked and destroyed them at the command of the Lord, 1 Samuel 15:1-35 . A remnant, however, escaped and subsided afterwards; [[David]] defeated them on several occasions, 1 Samuel 27:8 30:1 2 Samuel 8:12; and they were finally blotted out by the Simeonites, in the time of Hezekiah, 1 [[Chronicles]] 4:43 , thus fulfilling the prediction of Balaam, Numbers 24:20 . Haman, the last of the race mentioned in Scripture, perished like his fathers, in conflict with the Jews. [[See]] the book of Esther. </p>

<p> A powerful people, who dwelt in [[Arabia]] Petraea, between the [[Dead]] [[Sea]] and the [[Red]] Sea, perhaps in moving troops. We cannot assign the place of their habitation, except in general it is apparent that they dwelt south of Palestine, between [[Mount]] [[Seir]] and the border of Egypt; and it does not appear that they possessed many cities, though one is mentioned in 1 [[Samuel]] 15:5 . They lived generally in migrating parties, in caves or in tents, like the Bedaween Arabs of the present day. The [[Israelites]] had scarcely passed the Red sea, when the Amelikites attacked them in the desert of Rephidim, and slew those who, through fatigue or weakness, lagged behind; and for this unprovoked assault on the people of God, the doom of extermination was passed upon them, [[Exodus]] 17:8-16 . They came again into conflict with a part of the Israelites on the border of the promised land, [[Numbers]] 14:45; and after 400 years, [[Saul]] attacked and destroyed them at the command of the Lord, 1 Samuel 15:1-35 . A remnant, however, escaped and subsided afterwards; [[David]] defeated them on several occasions, 1 Samuel 27:8 30:1 2 Samuel 8:12; and they were finally blotted out by the Simeonites, in the time of Hezekiah, 1 [[Chronicles]] 4:43 , thus fulfilling the prediction of Balaam, Numbers 24:20 . Haman, the last of the race mentioned in Scripture, perished like his fathers, in conflict with the Jews. [[See]] the book of Esther. </p>