Numbers 24:20 Cross References - Thomson

²⁰ Then having taken a view of Amalek he took up his parable and said, Amalek is the head of nations; But their seed shall be destroyed.

⁸ Now Amalek had come and made war on Israel at Raphidin,

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, Write this in a book to keep it in remembrance; and rehearse it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will entirely blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

¹⁶ because with a secret hand the Lord fighteth against Amalek from generation to generation.

³ And when the Israelites had sown, Madiam and Amelek came up, and the children of the east came up with them,

⁴⁸ He formed also an army and smote Amelek, and delivered Israel out of the hand of those who had trampled on them.

³ Now therefore go, and smite Amelek, and Jerim, and all that belong to him. Thou shalt not spare one of him but utterly destroy him. Having devoted him and all belonging to him to destruction, thou shalt spare none, but shalt slay man and woman, infant and suckling, herds and flocks, camels and asses. ⁴ Thereupon Saul assembled the people, and reviewed them at Galgal, four hundred thousand men of array, particularly of Juda thirty thousand men of array. ⁵ And when Saul came to the cities of Amelek, he laid an ambush in the valley. ⁶ And Saul said to the Kinites, Away, remove from among the Amelekites. I must not join you with them, for you dealt kindly with the Israelites when they were coming up out of Egypt. And when the Kinites had removed from among the Amelekites, ⁷ Saul smote Amelek from Evilat to Sur in front of Egypt; ⁸ and took Agag the king of Amelek alive. When he had slain all the people and Jerim with the edge of the sword,

⁸ when David went up with his men, and they fell upon all the Geserites, and upon the Amelekites. [Now this country was inhabited by wandering hordes, excepting those who had fixed abodes from Gelampsur to the land of Egypt.] ⁹ And when he smote the land he saved neither man nor woman alive; but he took their flocks, and herds, and asses, and camels, and raiment, and returned, and came to Angchus.

¹ But when David and his men arrived at Sekelak, on the third day, Amelek had invaded the South, and Sekelak, and had smitten Sekelak. Though they had burned it with fire,

¹⁷ And David came upon them, and smote them, from break of day till late in the evening, and part of the next day, so that not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled.

⁴³ and smote the remains of Amelek who had been left even to this time.

¹ After these things king Artaxerxes honoured Haman of Amadathus the Bougaian, and promoted him, and seated him first of all his friends,

⁹ Then Bugathan one of the chamberlains said to the king, Behold Hainan hath prepared a gallows for Mordecai who spoke for the king. There is at Haman's house a gallows actually erected fifty cubits high. Thereupon the king said, Let him be hanged thereon. ¹⁰ So Haman was hanged on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king's anger was appeased.

¹⁴ Accordingly he granted them leave to do so, and ordered the bodies of the ten sons of Hainan, to be thrown out to the Jews to be hanged up.