Text -- Deuteronomy 25:17 (NET)

Treatment of the Amalekites

25:17 Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way from Egypt,

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Deu 25:17

¹ tn Heb “what Amalek” (so NAB, NRSV). Here the individual ancestor, the namesake of the tribe, is cited as representative of the entire tribe at the time Israel was entering Canaan. Consistent with this, singular pronouns are used in v. 18 and the singular name appears again in v. 19. Since readers unfamiliar with the tribe of Amalekites might think this refers to an individual, the term “Amalekites” and the corresponding plural pronouns have been used throughout these verses (cf. NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).