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and completely by David (1Sa 30:1-31,2Sa 1:1,8:12); after his time we never read so much as of the name of Amalek.
[2.] This is the mean time God would have a continual controversy with him (Ex 17:16): Because his hand is upon the throne of the Lord, that is, against the camp of Israel in which the Lord ruled, which was the place of his sanctuary, and is therefore called a glorious high throne from the beginning (Jer 17:12); therefore the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. This was written for direction to Israel never to make any league with the Amalekites, but to look upon them as irreconcilable enemies, doomed to ruin. Amalek's destruction was typical of the destruction of all the enemies of Christ and his kingdom. Whoever make war with the Lamb, the Lamb will overcome them.
15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi
[the Lord my banner]:
16 for he said, because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have
war with Amalek from generation to generation.
Exodus-18
Jethro Visits Moses
1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of
all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt;
Jethro comes, to congratulate the happiness of Israel, and particularly the honour of Moses his son-in-law; and now Jethro thinks himself well paid for all the kindness he had shown to Moses in his distress, and his daughter better matched than he could have expected. Jethro could not but hear what all the country rang of, the glorious appearances of God for his people Israel (Ex 18:1); and he comes to enquire,