Difference between revisions of "Amalek"

<p> '''Amalek''' (''ăm'a-l'' ''ĕk'' ), ''people of prey, booty.'' The son of Eliphaz, and grandson of Esau. &nbsp;Genesis 36:16; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 1:36. He was probably the father of the Amalekites, an ancient and powerful people, &nbsp;Genesis 14:7; &nbsp;Numbers 24:20, who inhabited the regions on the south of Palestine, between [[Idumea]] and Egypt, and also to the eastward of the [[Dead]] Sea and Mount Seir. &nbsp;Judges 5:14; &nbsp;Judges 12:15; &nbsp;1 Samuel 15:5. The Hebrews had scarcely passed the Red Sea, when the [[Amalekites]] attacked them; they were defeated by Joshua. &nbsp;Exodus 17:8. Saul destroyed them as a nation, &nbsp;1 Samuel 15:2-33, and David utterly routed them. &nbsp;1 Samuel 30:17. [[A]] small remnant seems to have escaped, till at last the word of the Lord was fulfilled, and their name was blotted from the earth, in their utter destruction. &nbsp;Numbers 24:20; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 4:43. The "Agagite," in &nbsp;Esther 3:1; &nbsp;Esther 3:10; &nbsp;Esther 8:3; &nbsp;Esther 8:5, was probably an Amalekite, whose ancestor had escaped from the general carnage. </p>