Geneva Bible Notes: Exodus 17

Exodus 17:1 (a) Moses here noteth not euerie place, where they camped, as {Nom. 33}, but onely those places where some notable thing was done.

Exodus 17:1 (/) Ebr. at the mouthe.

Exodus 17:1 (!) The Israelites come into Rephidim and grudge for water.

Exodus 17:2 (b) Why distrust you God? why loke you not for succour of him without murmuring against vs?

Exodus 17:4 (c) How readie this people are for their owne matters to slay the true prophets, and how slow thei are to reuenge Gods cause against his enemies and false prophets.

Exodus 17:6 (!) Water is giuen them out of the rocke.

Exodus 17:7 (/) Or, Strife.

Exodus 17:7 (d) When in aduersitie we thinke God absent, we neglect his promes and make him a lier.

Exodus 17:7 (/) Or, Tentacion.

Exodus 17:8 (e) Who came of Eliphaz, sonne of Easu, {Gen. 36:12}.

Exodus 17:9 (f) That is, Horeb, which is also called Sanai.

Exodus 17:11 (!) Moses holdeth vp his hands, & thei ouercome the Amalekites.

Exodus 17:11 (g) So that we se how dangerous a thing it is to faint in prayer.

Exodus 17:14 (h) In the boke of the lawe.

Exodus 17:15 (i) That is, the Lord is my banner: as he declared by holding vp his rod and his hands.

Exodus 17:16 (/) Ebr. The hand of the Lord vpon the throne.