Places of the Bible
Amalek
Region · region
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Amalek, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- Wilderness Wanderings · 1490 BC · 7 verses
- Reign of Saul · 1094 BC · 6 verses
- Reign of David · 1054 BC · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
A tribe that dwelt in Arabia Petraea, between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea. They were not the descendants of Amalek, the son of Eliphaz, for they existed in the days of Abraham (Gen. 14:7). They were probably a tribe that migrated from the shores of the Persian Gulf and settled in Arabia. “They dwelt in the land of the south...from Havilah until thou comest to Shur” (Num. 13:29; 1 Sam. 15:7). They were a pastoral, and hence a nomadic race. Their kings bore the hereditary name of Agag (Num. 24:7; 1 Sam. 15:8). They attempted to stop the Israelites when they marched through their territory (Deut. 25:18), attacking them at Rephidim (Ex. 17:8-13; comp. Deut. 25:17; 1 Sam. 15:2). They afterwards attacked the Israelites at Hormah (Num. 14:45). We read of them subsequently as in league with the Moabites (Judg. 3:13) and the Midianites (Judg. 6:3). Saul finally desolated their territory and destroyed their power (1 Sam. 14:48; 15:3), and David recovered booty from them (1 Sam. 30:18-20). In the Babylonian inscriptions they are called Sute, in those of Egypt Sittiu, and the Amarna tablets include them under the general name of Khabbati, or “plunderers.”
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 18 verses
- Exodus
- 17:8, 17:9, 17:10, 17:11, 17:13, 17:14, 17:16
- Numbers
- 24:20
- Deuteronomy
- 25:17, 25:19
- 1 Samuel
- 15:2, 15:3, 15:5, 15:8, 15:20, 28:18
- 2 Samuel
- 8:12
- 1 Chronicles
- 18:11
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.