Deuteronomy 25:18

_REMEMBER WHAT AMALEK DID UNTO THEE BY THE WAY, WHEN YE WERE COME FORTH OUT OF EGYPT;_ Remember what Amalek did ... how he met thee - i:e., stealthily and in hostile encounter. This cold-blooded and dastardly atrocity is not narrated in the previous history (Exodus 17:14). It was an unprovoked outrage on the laws of humanity, as well as a daring defiance of that God who had by so many signs and miraculous deeds shown His interest in and favour toward Israel, (see the notes at 1 Samuel 15:1; 1 Samuel 27:8; 1 Samuel 30:1.) This was the gravamen of the malignant attack of the Amalekites. It was, in the circumstances,

17-19 Let every persecutor and injurer of God's people take warning from the case of the Amalekites. The longer it is before judgement comes, the more dreadful will it be at last. Amalek may remind us of the foes of our souls. May we be enabled to slay all our lusts, all the corruptions both within and without, all the powers of darkness and of the world, which oppose our way to the blessed Saviour....

Verse Deuteronomy 25:18. _SMOTE THE HINDMOST OF THEE_] Exodus 17:8. It is supposed that this command had its final accomplishment in the death of Haman and his ten sons, Esther 3, Esther 7, Esther 9, as from this time the memory and name of Amalek was blotted out from under heaven, for through every period of their history it might be truly said, _They feared not God_....

Honesty in trade, as a duty to our neighbor, is emphatically enforced once more (compare Leviticus 19:35). It is noteworthy that John the Baptist puts the like duties in the forefront of his preaching (compare Luke 3:12 ff); and that “the prophets” (compare Ezekiel 45:10; Amos 8:5; Micah 6:10) and “the Psalms” Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:10,...

EXPOSITION LAWS RELATING TO CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, LEVIRATE MARRIAGES, AND WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. DEUTERONOMY 25:1 The first and second verses should be read as one sentence, of which the protasis is in Deuteronomy 25:1 and the apodosis in Deuteronomy 25:2, thus: IF THERE BE A STRIFE BETWEEN MEN, AND THEY COME TO JUDGMENT, AND THEY (_i_._e_._ _the judges) give judgment on them, and justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked, then

HOW HE MET THEE BY THE WAY,.... Not with necessary provisions, food and drink, which would have been but a piece of kindness and humanity to travellers; but met them sword in hand, in order to stop their journey, and make them captives, at least to harass and distress them: AND SMOTE THE HINDMOST OF THEE; came upon them in a sly cowardly manner, and attacked their rear: [EVEN] ALL [THAT WERE] FEEBLE BEHIND THEE: women and children, and such men as were weak, sickly, labouring under some disorder, and so lagged behind, and could not keep up with the rest; on these Amalek first fell, and began his attack here: WHEN THOU [WAST] FAINT AND WEARY; with travelling, and the more so for want of water, which was their case at Rephidim, when Amalek came out against them; which is another aggravation of their unkind usage of them they were not to forget: AND HE FEARED NOT GOD; who was then in th...

21. VARIOUS LAWS AND RESPONSIBILITIES CHAPTER 25 _ 1. Corporal punishment (Deuteronomy 25:1)_ 2. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox (Deuteronomy 25:4) 3. The brother-in-law's marriage (Deuteronomy 25:5) 4. Concerning a sinful freedom (Deuteronomy 25:11) 5. Concerning divers weights and measures (Deuteronomy 25:13) 6. Concerning the conquest of Amalek (Deuteronomy 25:17

DEUTERONOMY 25:1. Another of Dt.'s humanitarian laws. Punishment by the bastinado among the ancient Hebrews and Egyptians was common (see Wilkinson- Birch, _Ancient Egyptians_, i. pp. 305, 308). The present writer saw it in Egypt in 1888; see Exodus 21:20 (showing that a slave was sometimes beaten to death), Proverbs 10:13; Proverbs 19:29. Deuteronomy 25:3. The forty stripes became thirty- nine (2 Corinthians 11:24) i

On -Amaleḳ Israel, remembering -Amaleḳ"s impious treatment of their derelicts on the way from Egypt, must, when they rest from their enemies in the land, exterminate -Amaleḳ. In the Sg. address (except for an accidental Pl. in Deuteronomy 25:17) and partly in D's phrasing; but also with phrases from E (Deuteronomy 25:18 f.), and therefore, like so much else in D, based upon E. This is confirmed by another reference to the same behaviour of -Amaleḳ in a passage which otherwise shows affinity to E (1 Samuel 15:2). Further, Israel's attitude to -Amaleḳ under Saul and David, was one of implacable hostility. There is therefore no ground for supposing that this law is a late addition to D (Steuern., Berth., the

LESSON TWENTY DEUTERONOMY 25:17 TO DEUTERONOMY 26:19 n. LAWS OF NATIONAL IMPORT (Deuteronomy 25:17 to Deuteronomy 26:19) (1) THE PUNISHMENT OF AMALEK (Deuteronomy 25:17-19) 17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt; 18 how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. 19 Therefore it shall be, when Jehovah thy God hath given thee rest from all thine