Genesis 36:12

36:12 Timna, a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These were the sons ¹  of Esau’s wife Adah.

Genesis 36:16

36:16 chief Korah, ²  chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These were the chiefs descended from Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons ³  of Adah.

Numbers 24:20

Balaam’s Final Prophecies

24:20 Then Balaam ⁴  looked on Amalek and delivered this oracle: ⁵ 

“Amalek was the first ⁶  of the nations,

but his end will be that he will perish.”

Deuteronomy 25:17

Treatment of the Amalekites

25:17 Remember what the Amalekites ⁷  did to you on your way from Egypt,

Deuteronomy 25:1

25:1 If controversy arises between people, ⁸  they should go to court for judgment. When the judges ⁹  hear the case, they shall exonerate ¹⁰  the innocent but condemn ¹¹  the guilty.

Deuteronomy 15:2

15:2 This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; ¹²  he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, ¹³  for it is to be recognized as “the Lord’s cancellation of debts.”

Deuteronomy 30:1

The Results of Covenant Reaffirmation

30:1 “When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses ¹⁴  I have set before you, you will reflect upon them ¹⁵  in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.

Psalms 83:7

83:7 Gebal, ¹⁶  Ammon, and Amalek,

Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. ¹⁷ 

¹ tn Or “grandsons” (NIV); “descendants” (NEB).

² tc The Samaritan Pentateuch omits the name “Korah” (see v. 11 and 1 Chr 1:36).

³ tn Or “grandsons” (NIV); “descendants” (NEB).

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Balaam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “and he lifted up his oracle and said.” So also in vv. 21, 23.

⁶ sn This probably means that it held first place, or it thought that it was “the first of the nations.” It was not the first, either in order or greatness.

⁷ 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).

⁸ tn Heb “men.”

⁹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the judges) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰ tn Heb “declare to be just”; KJV, NASB “justify the righteous”; NAB, NIV “acquitting the innocent.”

¹¹ tn Heb “declare to be evil”; NIV “condemning the guilty (+ party NAB).”

¹² tn Heb “his neighbor,” used idiomatically to refer to another person.

¹³ tn Heb “his neighbor and his brother.” The words “his brother” may be a scribal gloss identifying “his neighbor” (on this idiom, see the preceding note) as a fellow Israelite (cf. v. 3). In this case the conjunction before “his brother” does not introduce a second category, but rather has the force of “that is.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “the blessing and the curse.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “and you bring (them) back to your heart.”

¹⁶ sn Some identify Gebal with the Phoenician coastal city of Byblos (see Ezek 27:9, where the name is spelled differently), though others locate this site south of the Dead Sea (see BDB 148 s.v. גְּבַל; HALOT 174 s.v. גְּבַל).

¹⁷ map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.