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Exodus 17:16
He said, “The LORD has sworn: ‘The LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”
Exodus 17:16 · World English Bible
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Exodus 17:16 in other translations
For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
“Indeed,” he said, “a hand was lifted up toward the throne of the LORD. The LORD will war against Amalek from generation to generation.”
He said, "Yah has sworn: 'The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.'"
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In context
13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
14 The LORD said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”
15 Moses built an altar, and called its name “The LORD our Banner”.
16 He said, “The LORD has sworn: ‘The LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”
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