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Haman had to open the treasury himself. He counted out the crown, the robes, and the king's own horse, then led Mordecai through the city.
His arms were heavy and the camp had pillows to spare. Amalek was still attacking, so Moses sat on a rock instead and kept his hands up.
Joshua cuts Amalek's ranks below while Moses' arms fail on the hill, and Aaron and Hur hold them skyward until the enemy breaks at dusk.
Avshalom's hunters search a house. A wife uncovers herself on a well mouth, shames their eyes, and hides two messengers whose line will one day stop Haman.
The same report of Amaleks ruin hardened the scoffer and converted Jethro, while Heaven swore no seed of Amalek would be welcomed to draw near.
In the valley before Amalek Saul argues that beasts have not sinned. Heaven answers. He spares Agag. The sword he withheld later finds him.
Esther hesitated before the throne. Mordecai answered with a catalog of vanquished enemies from Amalek to Sisera, and said the palace would not save her alone.
After Aaron died, Amalek dressed as Canaanites to dodge Israel's prayer. Israel named no foe. God still knew. The camp also learned thirst again.
Fresh from the sea, Israel limps faint and weary into Amalek's path, and the attack chooses the soft hour when fear of heaven has thinned to nothing.
At Rephidim Joshua weakened Amalek while Moses hands held the sky. Rabbi Eliezer later split one verb into king, family, and armies in full.
Sure he was about to die, Mordecai put on his prayer shawl and taught the laws of the barley offering. Haman had to admit barley had beaten silver before.
While Isaac breathed Esau held the covenant, then cast it off at the grave, while Jacob kept the moons quieter clock against the suns loud day.
The rod Moses carried up the hill had already broken Egypt and split the sea. Below, an army that came to fight found it could not move.
Balaam and Jethro had once sat in Pharaoh's council together. From a hilltop above Moab, Balaam finally said what he thought of the man who walked out.
Esau's crimes cut five years from Abraham's life so the patriarch would not see his shame, and the color red clung from cradle stew to Edom's reckoning.
At Rephidim Israel's grip on Torah loosens, Amalek arrives like a wolf at a slack rope, and Moses later insists that even war begin with peace terms.
Some in the camp tested God without saying a word: if He knows what we are thinking, we will serve Him. The answer that walked in was Amalek.
Israel appointed a king and fought Amalek, yet the Temple waited. Informers and Doeg's report at Nov drove the Presence away faster than any army.
Ten scouts opened their report with the name that still stung from the wilderness road, and courage fell out of Israel like water from a cracked jar.
There was no water at Refidim, and the people quarreled until Moses told God they were close to stoning him. Then Amalek came at them out of the hills.
Four golden lampstands made Jerusalem glow at the water drawing. Beyond that joy, God Himself will teach Torah by heart.
The spies named Amalek first, the harsh strap at the door of the Land, while Nahshon of Judah camped toward the rising light.
Pharaoh's jeweled horses pressed from behind while the sea rose ahead, and Israel cried out like a dove boxed between hawk and snake.
From twilight to the next evening David struck Amalek while God lit his lamp, after Israel was charged to blot that enemy out.
Israel left the measured manna and wandered three days without teaching. At Rephidim the enemy found the gap the people had opened themselves.
Students mock a short prayer until a master answers with Moses begging five Hebrew words for Miriam while Amalek waits on the road.
Yitro, once an advisor in Pharaoh's circle with Amalek, hears that Amalek's name is being erased and walks away toward the God of Israel.
David wants to build God's house while enemies still circle. First seat the throne, then cut off Amalek, then raise the Temple stones.
Jethro brought Zipporah, whom Moses had divorced, and her two sons to a camp the cloud had sealed. He tied his letter to an arrow and shot it inside.
Before God strikes any nation on earth, His night court throws down that people's guardian-prince in heaven, and the kingdom falls by morning.
