You must celebrate this day as a religious festival to remind you of what I, the LORD, have done. Celebrate it for all time to come."

This observance will be a reminder, like something tied on your hand or on your forehead; it will remind you to continue to recite and study the Law of the LORD, because the LORD brought you out of Egypt by his great power.

The LORD said to Moses, "Write these words down, because it is on the basis of these words that I am making a covenant with you and with Israel."

So Moses wrote down God's Law and gave it to the levitical priests, who were in charge of the LORD's Covenant Box, and to the leaders of Israel.

you will tell them that the water of the Jordan stopped flowing when the LORD's Covenant Box crossed the river. These stones will always remind the people of Israel of what happened here."

How I wish that someone would remember my words and record them in a book!

He told Haggai to speak to Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, to Joshua, the High Priest, and to the people, and to say to them,

"Is there anyone among you who can still remember how splendid the Temple used to be? How does it look to you now? It must seem like nothing at all.

Then in his vision Balaam saw the Amalekites and uttered this prophecy: "Amalek was the most powerful nation of all, But at the end it will perish forever."

"Remember what the Amalekites did to you as you were coming from Egypt.

So then, when the LORD your God has given you the land and made you safe from all your enemies who live around you, be sure to kill all the Amalekites, so that no one will remember them any longer. Do not forget!

He is going to punish the people of Amalek because their ancestors opposed the Israelites when they were coming from Egypt.

Go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have. Don't leave a thing; kill all the men, women, children, and babies; the cattle, sheep, camels, and donkeys."

Saul defeated the Amalekites, fighting all the way from Havilah to Shur, east of Egypt;

he captured King Agag of Amalek alive and killed all the people.

and he sent you out with orders to destroy those wicked people of Amalek. He told you to fight until you had killed them all.

During that time David and his men would attack the people of Geshur, Girzi, and Amalek, who had been living in the region a very long time. He would raid their land as far as Shur, all the way down to Egypt,

killing all the men and women and taking the sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and even the clothes. Then he would come back to Achish,

Two days later David and his men arrived back at Ziklag. The Amalekites had raided southern Judah and attacked Ziklag. They had burned down the town

At dawn the next day David attacked them and fought until evening. Except for four hundred young men who mounted camels and got away, none of them escaped.

After Saul's death David came back from his victory over the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag for two days.

He asked who I was, and I told him that I was an Amalekite.

So I went up to him and killed him, because I knew that he would die anyway as soon as he fell. Then I took the crown from his head and the bracelet from his arm, and I have brought them to you, sir."

They grieved and mourned and fasted until evening for Saul and Jonathan and for Israel, the people of the LORD, because so many had been killed in battle.

David asked him, "How is it that you dared kill the LORD's chosen king?"

and David said to the Amalekite, "You brought this on yourself. You condemned yourself when you confessed that you killed the one whom the LORD chose to be king."

Edom, Moab, Ammon, Philistia, and Amalek---as well as part of the loot he had taken from Hadadezer.

There they killed the surviving Amalekites, and they have lived there ever since.

Then how can we ignore your commandments again and intermarry with these wicked people? If we do, you will be so angry that you will destroy us completely and let no one survive.

Their fame is ended at home and abroad; no one remembers them any more.

Our enemies are finished forever; you have destroyed their cities, and they are completely forgotten.

Good people will be remembered as a blessing, but the wicked will soon be forgotten.