Jun 25, 2026 · 12 min · 10 segments
This episode is part 9 in a study of the book of Exodus. The people forget that God provides when they get thirsty. The Israelites win their first victory... with God's help. Moses gets some good…
The whole Israelite community set out from the desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded.
Take with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel, and he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, "Is the Lord among us or not?" And the two words there, Massah means testing and Meribah means quarreling.
We will have Moses standing in front of a rock again and the people thirsty again.
We're going through a desert, so this is a theme that will keep coming up, and each time it's like it never happened before.
Moses said to Joshua, "Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites.
Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands." So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went to the top of the hill.
As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning.
When Moses' hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it.
Aaron and Hur held his hands up, one on one side, one on the other, so his hands remained steady till sunset.
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven." Moses built an altar and called it "The Lord is my Banner." He said, "Because hands were lifted up against me, the throne of the Lord, the Lord will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation." A couple of interesting things to note here.
The whole Israelite community set out from the desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded.
Take with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel, and he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, "Is the Lord among us or not?" And the two words there, Massah means testing and Meribah means quarreling.
We will have Moses standing in front of a rock again and the people thirsty again.
We're going through a desert, so this is a theme that will keep coming up, and each time it's like it never happened before.
Moses said to Joshua, "Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites.
Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands." So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went to the top of the hill.
As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning.
When Moses' hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it.
Aaron and Hur held his hands up, one on one side, one on the other, so his hands remained steady till sunset.
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven." Moses built an altar and called it "The Lord is my Banner." He said, "Because hands were lifted up against me, the throne of the Lord, the Lord will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation." A couple of interesting things to note here.
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