The Command to Blot Out Amalek
17 " Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt , 18 how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary ; and he did not fear God .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 25:17-18
Commentary on Deuteronomy 25:17-19
(Read Deuteronomy 25:17-19)
Let every persecutor and injurer of God's people take warning from the case of the Amalekites. The longer it is before judgement comes, the more dreadful will it be at last. Amalek may remind us of the foes of our souls. May we be enabled to slay all our lusts, all the corruptions both within and without, all the powers of darkness and of the world, which oppose our way to the blessed Saviour.