Exodus 17:9 Cross References - NSB

⁹ Moses said to Joshua: »Choose some of our men. Then fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill. I will hold in my hand the staff God told me to take along.«

² Jehovah asked him: »What is that in your hand?« He answered: »A shepherd’s staff.«

²⁰ So Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on a donkey and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.

¹³ That is how Joshua defeated the Amalekites.

¹³ Moses and Joshua his assistant got ready. Moses started up the mountain to meet with God.

²⁸ Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses’ helper since he was a young man, spoke up and said to Moses: »Stop them, sir!«

³ Moses said to the people: »Your men must get ready to go to war against the Midianites. Jehovah will use them to get even with Midian. ⁴ »Send one thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel.«

¹⁶ These are the names of the men Moses sent to explore the land. But Moses gave Hoshea, son of Nun, the name Joshua.

⁴⁴ Then Moses came, along with Joshua son of Nun, and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

⁴⁵ »Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Joshua into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, until the days of David;

⁸ If Joshua had given them rest, he [God] would not have spoken afterwards about another day.