Dictionaries :: Amalekites

Nave's Topical Bible

Amalekites: A People

Inhabiting the country south of Idumea and east of the Red Sea,

Num 13:29; 14:25; 1Sa 15:7; 27:8.

Amalekites: Defeated By

Chedorlaomer,

Gen 14:7;

Joshua,

Exd 17:8, 13;

Gideon,

Jdg 7;

Saul,

1Sa 14:47, 48; 15:1-33;

David,

1Sa 27:8, 9; 30:1-20;

the Simeonites,

1Ch 4:42, 43.

Amalekites: Defeat the Israelites

Num 14:45; Jdg 3:13

Amalekites: Israel Commanded to Destroy

Deu 25:17-19; 1Sa 28:18

Amalekites: Prophecies Against

Exd 17:14, 16; Num 24:20

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Amalekites:

a nomadic tribe of uncertain origin, which occupied the peninsula of Sinai and the wilderness intervening between the southern hill‐ranges of Palestine and the border of Egypt (Numbers 13:29; 1 Samuel 15:7; 27:8). Their wealth consisted in flocks and herds. Mention is made of a "town" (1 Samuel 15:5) but their towns could have been little more than stations or nomadic enclosures. The Amalekites first came in contact with the Israelites at Rephidim, but were signally defeated (Exodus 17:8-16). In union with the Canaanites they again attacked the Israelites on the borders of Palestine, and defeated them near Hormah (Numbers 14:45). Saul undertook an expedition against them (1 Samuel 14:48). Their power was thenceforth broken, and they degenerated into a horde of banditti. Their destruction was completed by David (1 Samuel 30:1-17).