Amalek

Gender: Male

Years: -1853 - -1040

Dictionary Text: Dweller in a valley, the son of Eliphaz and grandson of Esau;; the chief of an Idumean tribe. His mother was a Horite, a tribe whose territory the descendants of Esau had seized.

Family Members

• Father: Eliphaz
• Mother: Timna
• Siblings:
  • Omar
  • Zepho
  • Teman
  • Kenaz
  • Gatam
  • Korah

Verses

• Judges 3:13: And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
• Psalms 83:7: Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
• 1 Chronicles 1:36: The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.
• Deuteronomy 25:19: Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
• Exodus 17:16: For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
• 1 Samuel 15:3: Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
• Deuteronomy 25:17: Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
• Exodus 17:14: And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
• 1 Samuel 15:20: And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
• Numbers 24:20: And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
• 1 Samuel 15:2: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
• 1 Samuel 28:18: Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.
• Genesis 36:12: And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau’s wife.
• Genesis 36:16: Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah.
• Exodus 17:13: And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
• 1 Samuel 15:5: And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
• 2 Samuel 8:12: Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
• Exodus 17:9: And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
• Exodus 17:10: So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
• Exodus 17:11: And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
• Judges 5:14: Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
• Exodus 17:8: Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.