Amalek
Ancient site, identified with Ain el Qudeirat.
Placeregion28 verses
Where was it?
One proposed modern location, with the scholarly support recorded for it.
- Ain el Qudeirat864
Name variants
- Amalek (168)
- Amalekites (96)
- Amalekite (3)
References
Topical references
- A people inhabiting the country south of Idumea and east of the Red Sea — Numbers 13:29; Numbers 14:25; 1 Samuel 15:7; 1 Samuel 27:8
- Defeated by Chedorlaomer — Genesis 14:7
- Defeated by Joshua — Exodus 17:8; Exodus 17:13
- Defeated by Gideon — Judges 7
- Defeated by Saul — 1 Samuel 14:47; 1 Samuel 14:48; 1 Samuel 15:1
- Defeated by David — 1 Samuel 27:8; 1 Samuel 27:9; 1 Samuel 30:1
- Defeated by the Simeonites — 1 Chronicles 4:42; 1 Chronicles 4:43
- Defeat the Israelites — Numbers 14:45; Judges 3:13
- Israel commanded to destroy — Deuteronomy 25:17; 1 Samuel 28:18
- Prophecies against — Exodus 17:14; Exodus 17:16; Numbers 24:20
Outline from Nave's Topical Bible (1897); the sub-headings are Nave's own.