. According to the midrash (homiletic teachings), after killing Jewish men, Amalek cut off the brit milah (circumcision) of the male Jewish casualties and threw them up at heaven. Some commentators explain this as a reference to the territory which was later on inhabited by the Amalekites. The Amalekites were descendants of Esau's grandson, Amalek. The Left admires the godless quality of communism and yearns for the conquest of America. In the period of the Judges. The etymology is uncertain, according to John L. McKenzie (1995), while Cox (1884) suggested "High." Warnings are being issued about specific roads and areas. Deuteronomy 25:18. Verses 8-16. get answers to your Bible questions from 50+ resources ($2,400+ value! . [12] They appear to have lived a nomadic or seminomadic lifestyle along the fringes of southern Canaan's agricultural zone. 12; compare Timnah as name of an Edomite chief or clan, verse 40). When these peoples came with considerable forces and camped in the Valley of Jezreel (6:33), Gideon and his 300 men, under the direction of the Lord, routed and killed many of them (7:19-23). In Numbers 24:20 Balaam prophesied, Amalek was the first of the nations, but in the end he shall come to destruction. This reference does not suggest that the early Genesis 14:7 reference to Amalek is in conflict with the Genesis 36:16 statement regarding Amalek, the grandson of Esau. The Bible tells us that when the Israelites left Egypt, they were attacked from behind by Amalek and his people. They slaughtered those who could not defend themselves. New International Version (NIV). He reminds Israel during Balaams prophecies that were supposed to be curses: Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction. The police are warning that this week marks 40 days after Mugniyah was killed in Syria an event that Hizbollah attributes to Israel and are on high alert for revenge attacks on Israel. Well, according to biblical scholar Matthew Henry, "The Amalekites were probably descendants of Esau (Genesis 36:12), and so enemies of Isaac's family." In other words, they were enemies of God's chosen people from the very beginning. The Marxist Left has vowed to destroy America. Feminists and homosexuals coexist in blissful harmony with Muslims, who are for the oppression of women and the murder of homosexuals. They are killing themselves spiritually, politically, and even physically. ", They are in lockstep with Hillary Clinton to uproot American culture. The Amalekites had their origin within the Edomites, being descendants of Esau. In an ideal time, it should be an extended party that would make any frat boy jealous! According to the Bible, Amalek was the son of Eliphaz (himself the son of Esau, ancestor of the Edomites) and Eliphaz's concubine Timna. He states that "there is practically no historical evidence that anyone in the Great Church" viewed them as being purely an allegory. Some have made the connection that Sadaam Hussein and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran (modern Persia), are also descendants of Agog and Amalek and given what they want(ed) to do to the Jews and where they come from, it would come as no surprise if there was ever biological evidence to support this. And where are all the miracles? read in Amalek. Judges 6:3, 33; 7:12 depict the Amalekites joining forces with the Midianites (who seem to have wandered in the area of Sinai [Exod 4:19] and wilderness E of Paran [1 Kings 11:18]; and also in the territory E of Gilead [Judg 8:4-12]), and making camel raids against the agriculture communities of Israel as far S as Gaza (6:3, 4). Liberalism is what happens when you take God and meaning out of life. Instead of confronting the Israelite people in a traditional battle or war, Amalek ambushed them, as a terrorist would. During the reign of Hezekiah, 500 Simeonites annihilated the remnant of the Amalekites, so God is not still at war with the Amalek. How can that be? [20][21] It is, however, possible that the name Amalek may have been given to two different nations. Lets watch. The second thing that Amalek does is that they are willing to kill themselves in order to bring that about. They encamp just across the river. This continued until the plague of the death of the firstborn and finished him completely.. Rabbi Dayan played a central role in so-called death curse ceremonies, or Pulsa diNura, aimed at Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon as a punishment for their giving up portions of Israel and dealing with murderers of Jews. So as soon as Moses tells them to go around the enemy armies, they immediately want to go through the land and fight. But, although many hoped that a "silver lining" around the Shoa might be the final dissipation . In the annals of Jewish history, "[t]he Amalekites, descendants ofAmalek, were an ancient biblical nation living near the land ofCanaan. . The angel touches it with his staff and fire consumes the whole meal, at which point Gideon believes. [21] Some Muslim historians claimed that the Amalekites who fought Joshua were descendants of the inhabitants of North Africa. Instead, this is the part of the story where Israel gets angry with God for taking them out of Egypt, and God declares that nobody who left Egypt will make it to the Promised Land. Much of liberalism today is like that. David pursued the Amalekites, defeated all but four hundred of them, and took back all that had been stolen (1 Samuel 30:17-20). The king attacked and conquered this foe with their city called Amalek (1 Sam 15:4-7) the exact location of which is not known. Now David is both more obedient to God and better at war than Saul ever was, so he starts fighting the Amalekites even while Saul is hunting him down (1 Samuel 27:810). Searching the Bible to find the author of Psalm 89. Thus, the continuing oppressive spirit of this pagan nomadic tribe required a different treatment by the Lord from that which was to be normally carried out; namely, that terms of peace be first offered to a potential enemy (Deut 20:10-12). This is seen by observing the Kenites who lived with the Amalekites at the city of Amalek (1 Sam 15:5, 6) and that they earlier had taken up this residence with the people in the region of the Negeb near Arad (Judg 1:16), which was only about twenty m. S of Hebron. Rabbi Dayan paraphrased Rabbi Moshe Charlap, a leader in the religious Zionist movement of the first half of the 20th century. a. This can even be left-wing Jews in Israel.. However, in 1 Samuel 15:2 this people were still flourishing. Hence, Streicher's yell, "Purim Fest 1946!" Purim's historical background: The story of Judges is that Israel would forget God and wander dive headlong into idolatry, a foreign nation would conquer them, Israel would repent, and only then would God raise up a leader to defeat their oppressors and lead Israel for a time. It is a time of merriment, celebration, and partying. For example, there is the American Jewish Committee who in 2016 chose the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) to launch a Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council - this even though ISNA has ties to Islamic terrorists. According to 1 Samuel 14:47, 48 the king had fought against this enemy. . The politics of the progressive Jew is "bordering on the suicidal.". They spread out around the camp, and on Gideons signal, they all smash their jars and blow their trumpets and light their torches and yell! 4 [Dec., 1969], 104-111). The answer is NO. As a people, the Amalekites were identified as a recurrent enemy of the Israelites. Moses, ever the leader (and well past eighty) delegates the fighting to Joshua, who needs the experience given whats coming in the next few decades. The Nephilim Tribes of Canaan, Amalekites, Edomites, Idumeans, Khazarians (Jews) "Thus, while it is a fact that all true Jews are Israelites (because they are descended from the House of Judah), it can be proven by research that Not All Who Say They Are Jews Are True Israelites.". the descendants of Amalek as well, and thus sanction and legitimate their own at times violent actions. Agag (/ e /; Hebrew: gg) is a Northwest Semitic name or title applied to a biblical king.It has been suggested that "Agag" was a dynastic name of the kings of Amalek, just as Pharaoh was used as a dynastic name for the ancient Egyptians. I dont know either., This may not be a literal translation of the Hebrew., The most drawn-out miracle in the Old Testament is Elijahs battle with Jezebels priests of Baal in 1 Kings 18.. Amalek was the grandson of Esau, Jacob's older brother. The rioters are antifa andBlack Lives Matterand they are inherently anti-Semitic. We know both his mothers name (Timna, a concubine of his father Eliphaz) and his grandmothers name (Adah, wife of his grandfather Esau) (Genesis 36:912; 1 Chronicles 1:3436). The story we remind ourselves of each year, by reading Parshah Zachor, is that of the attack of the Amalekites, who are the descendants of Eliphaz, son of Esau (the patriarch Jacob's brother and sworn enemy) and his concubine Timna. If Amalek has always been identified with the enemies of Israel, then perhaps they were never a distinct nation that would leave behind distinctive artifacts. You will not be surprised that the wars continue. The fact that synagogues got tagged and Jewish businesses were looted with [signs saying] 'Free Palestine' and 'Kill the Jews,' is not a coincidence. [51], Theologian Charles Ellicott explains that the Amalekites were subject to cherem in the Book of Samuel for the purposes of incapacitation, due to their 'accursed' nature and the threat they posed to the commonwealth of surrounding nations. So, the Amalekites were somehow related to, but distinct from, the Edomites. Seir: At the time of the Exodus, the Amalekites had expanded west to in the Negev: Numbers 13:29; Astonishingly, even those allegedly versed in Judaism are in denial about BLM. Hamas is clearly this way. Prophecy from the Bible is revealing itself as we speak. The Midianites and Amalekites pull out their swords and swipe at anything that moveswhich is mostly their comrades. Zogby's initiatives promoted Jews as privileged 'whites.' A major trait of Amalek is the rejection of any rule, in particular the rule of heaven. [20], By the 19th century, there was strong support by Western theologians for the idea that the nation of Amalek could have flourished before the time of Abraham. Buchman states that "we must acknowledge the phenomenon of biological Jews who are converts from Judaism to the nation of Amalek. , the rabbi of King Davids Tomb on Mount Zion, believes that Amalek exists in the world today, in individuals and also in nations. Twenty-two thousand men take the hint and skedaddle, leaving Gideon with less than a third of his force, just ten thousand men. Observing this connection, there is no need, as some have attempted, to emend the text of Judges 1:16 from the people (Heb. It is customary for the audience to make noise and shout whenever "Haman" is mentioned, in order to desecrate his name, based on Exodus 17:14. By tradition, the Amalekites were the descendants of the Edomite, Amalek, himself the grandson of Esauunless you are Arabian, in which case Amalek was the grandson of another Amalek who was also the Chief of the Amalekites, which was in fact, just another name for the Canaanites. The Amalekites as a nomadic desert tribe moved in the area from the Sinaitic region and the steppe land of the Negeb in S Canaan, S of Beersheba, over E to include the Arabah region N of Elath and Ezion-geber and possibly the more interior Arabia. They lived north of Kadesh-barnea in the Negeb desert in the southern part of Palestine, with their tributary camps radiating out into the Sinai Peninsula and northern Arabia. 1 Samuel 30:1, 2 points to the Amalekite heavy raiding activity in the area of the Negeb, and Judges 6:3, 33 in speaking of the Amalekite association with the kings of the E in their raiding parties suggests that they may have lived sometime together in the Arabian territory toward the E. The Amalekites also extended their influence farther N into the Philistine country and the region of Ephraim. Which must have been a weird dream for them, and an even weirder interpretation, but their conversation encourages Gideon. It seems like angels just appear to everybody in Scripture, but thats because those are the stories worth telling. Rabbi Berger quoted Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, an 11th century French Torah scholar who is known by the acronym Rashi, who explained the verse. Consequently, anti-Semitism is in full vogue. Consequently, America is presently in a battle, not only for its physical well-being but also for its spiritual values. ", As Mark Alexander writes "[b]ut today, the ability of Americans to discern 'between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice,' is being systematically eroded by leftist politicos, in collusion with their 24/7 Left media and Big Tech enablers, relentlessly seeking to empower the state.". 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites . Judaism, which is based on the. Corrections? This demonstrates again Israels strong antipathy to Amalek. They came to stop the Jews from entering Israel. Among them were the historian Simon Dubnow who . Abraham was given the strength to conquer Amalek through the test of offering up Isaac, by putting aside his emotions to do the will of God. This is why they will say that abortion and homosexuality, actions that detract from life, are moral imperatives. The district over which they ranged was south of Judah and probably extended into northern Arabia. After that brief mention of geography and Esaus genealogy, Amalek disappears until the Exodus, centuries later. ; LXX ) to Amalekite (), to try to make agreement with 1 Samuel 15:6, since the connection of the Kenites in these two passages is clear and evidence for changing the text is lacking. According to the Bible, Sarah and Abraham who were then called Sarai and Abram were aging and childless. The Amalekites seem to have been fairly well controlled under the monarchy, for the OT does not mention them again until the time of Hezekiah (c. 700 b.c.) The psalmist (Ps 83:7) lists Amalek with the avowed enemies of Israel. This means that we cannot point at any one nation and say that they are Amalek. Who are the descendants of Ishmael? This has been accelerated by the hypocrisy and intolerance of the vindictive Left, aided and abetted by foolish bleeding-heart pseudo-liberals who have become accomplices in the undermining of democracy." In the Beginning. And they were at war. Instablogs.com A Dr Prem Guides Magazines Site. Bibliography G. A. Smith, The Historical Geography of the Holy Land (1896), 282; D. Baly, The Geography of the Bible (1957), 159. This commandment requires killing all the men, women, and children, anywhere and at any time. Different people can embody that concept. Amalek was one of the sons of Eliphaz and a grandson of Esau ( Gen 36:15, 16; 1 Chron 1:36 ). Gideon, not surprisingly, is victorious. (They dont know thats where theyre going, but we do.) Later in the time of the Judges the Amalekites showed continued harassing activity against Israel. [19] C. Knight elaborates this concept by making a comparison: one might say "Caesar went into France", though Gaul only later became known as France. He asks for another sign the next night: dew on the ground, but not on the fleece. Rather in Numbers 24:20 Amalek as first is to be understood as its being the first among the nations to attack Israel in her Exodus experiences (cf. They were saying that there is no room in this world for a covenant with God., Atheism is an extreme form of Amalek. Ishmaelites were recorded as the descendants of Ishmael in the Bible. He organized Europe in order to give Iran nuclear weapons, even though Iran was calling for Death to Israel and Death to America. He used the United Nations against Israel. It goes like this. Amalekite, member of an ancient nomadic tribe, or collection of tribes, described in the Old Testament as relentless enemies of Israel, even though they were closely related to Ephraim, one of the 12 tribes of Israel. "Timna was a Princess, but she wanted to convert. It is making God in the image of man, making man the ultimate authority, freeing him to do what he wants. 28 Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there. In the same way, you might say that the Algonquians inhabited Virginia, long before Virginia was a Commonwealth or the US was a country or Queen Elizabeth I was called the Virgin Queen. In the light of Amaleks past harassment of Israel the Lord commanded Saul to exterminate this enemy (1 Sam 15:1-3). Intifada Realism is becoming more clear each day when radical Islam allies itself with the radical Left. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. He cooled you off and made you appear tepid, after you were boiling hot, for the nations were afraid to fight with you, just as people are afraid to touch something boiling hot. b. For Amalekites in the Book of Mormon, see, Commandment to exterminate the Amalekites, Religious and modern scholarly discussion. [1] Buchman, Asher Benzio. Breaking Israel News asked several rabbis their opinion: Rabbi Pinchas Winston, a prolific author and end-of-days expert, has written several books on the subject of Amalek. Yet, the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis (MBR) joined forces with the Hamas front group CAIR. However, this will most certainly be the beginning of the end, if Jews stoop to the level of Amalek and attack those weaker than us, without the pretext and rules of war. Along came an irresponsible man and jumped headlong into it! For example, Rabbi Hayim Palaggi stated: We can rely on the maxim that in ancient times, Sennacherib confused the lineage of many nations. [13] This is probably based on the association of this tribal group with the steppe region of ancient Israel and the area of Kadesh (Genesis 14:7). 600 Deut. And it was an Amalekite who killed Saul, the first king of Israel. Etymology [ edit] In some rabbinical interpretations, Amalek is etymologised as am lak, 'a people who lick (blood)', [2] but most specialists regard the origin to be unknown. They need to tempt death to confirm that they are living. [45] According to Haggahot Maimuniyyot, the commandment applies only in the future messianic era and not in present times; this limitation is almost a consensus among medieval authorities. Rabbi Asher Benzio Buchman[1] in the journal Hakirah (Volume 28, Spring 2020) explains: [T]he base of the Democratic Party in the United States is made up of the envious lower classes, the Muslims, and the G-dless 'intellectuals' who dominate and indoctrinate on our college campuses and in the media. It means the Lord is peace.). Rabbi Dayan played a. central role in so-called death curse ceremonies, or Pulsa diNura, aimed at Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon as a punishment for their giving up portions of Israel and dealing with murderers of Jews. For less than $5/mo. But great for God, whose goal is glory for Himself, not glory for Gideon. 15:8). They are often associated with Edom, living in the same area as Edom. [8] One modern scholar believes this attests to Amalek's high antiquity,[9] while traditional commentator Rashi states: "He came before all of them to make war with Israel". Theyve encamped at a place called Rephidim. Do not forget! Nur Masalha, Elliot Horowitz, and Josef Stern suggest that Amalekites have come to represent an "eternally irreconcilable enemy" that wants to murder Jews, that Jews in post-biblical times sometimes associate contemporary enemies with Haman or Amalekites, and that some Jews believe that pre-emptive violence is acceptable against such enemies. Just a few years later, the cycle repeats, except this time Amalek is helping Midian defeat Israel, destroying crops and livestock (Judges 6:14). And they do seem to show up alongside all of Israels other enemieswith Moab in Balaams oracle, with Ammon in Psalm 83, with Midian in the story of Gideon, and with all of them at the same time in Davids wars. The book of Genesis was written down long after all of these events took place, and the people who heard it or read it would have immediately known where the Amalekites lived, which makes their name a convenient shorthand for their geography.