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AMALÉCITES

D'après Ge 36:12 et 1Ch 1:36, Amalek était petit-fils d'Esaü. C'est avant tout l'éponyme d'une grande tribu de nomades, habitant la région de l'Arabie Pétrée et le S. du pays de Canaan, jusqu'à la frontière égyptienne (Ge 14:7, No 13:29,1Sa 27:8). Amalek, proclamé par Balaam « première des nations » (No 24:20), s'opposa vivement à l'avance des Israélites, en marche dans le désert, vers la terre promise (Ex 17:8-16, De 25:17-19). Les espions envoyés par Moïse signalent les Amalécites comme habitant le pays du Négeb (No 13:29) et leur résistance obligera au mouvement tournant, par la Trans-jordanie (No 14:25). A l'époque des Juges, les Amalécites s'allieront toujours aux ennemis d'Israël : avec les Moabites et les Ammonites (Jug 3:13), avec les Madianites et les Fils de l'Orient (Jug 6:3-33 7:12). Acharnement qui faisait des Amalécites des ennemis perpétuels (Ex 17:16, Ps 83:8), cantonnés toujours d'ailleurs à la périphérie (les passages que l'on cite parfois pour prouver que ce peuple pénétra à l'intérieur de Canaan jusqu'à la montagne d'Éphraïm (Jug 5:14 12:15) sont certainement altérés, et les diverses leçons difficiles). Saül, charger par Samuel d'exterminer les Amalécites et leur roi Agag, épargna le roi et conserva le meilleur de ses troupeaux ; ce que n'approuva pas Samuel qui, à Guilgal, fit exécuter Agag (1Sa 15). Son peuple n'avait pas disparu entièrement et le prouva peu après, en ravageant tout le S. de Juda, brûlant Tsiklag, emmenant un copieux butin. David, qui dans cette razzia avait perdu ses deux femmes, Ahinoam et Abigaïl, rattrapa les pillards en plein désert, les dépouilla de leurs richesses, reprit ses femmes ; mais les bédouins méharistes'sur des chameaux) purent s'enfuir une fois de plus 1Sa 30).

Une des versions de la mort de Saül rend un Amalécite responsable de la mort du roi. D'après cette tradition, David le fait exécuter (2Sa 1:1-16). Ce même roi continua la lutte (2Sa 8:12), mais les Amalécites ne disparurent que plus tard, sous Ézéchias (728-693), après une expédition des fils de Siméon (1Ch 4:42) qui les dépossédèrent du mont Séir. A. P.

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    • Genèse 14

      7 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

      Genèse 36

      12 Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.

      Exode 17

      8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
      9 Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand."
      10 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
      11 It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
      12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.
      13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
      14 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky."
      15 Moses built an altar, and called its name Yahweh our Banner.
      16 He said, "Yah has sworn: 'Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.'"

      Nombres 13

      29 Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan."

      Nombres 14

      25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea ."

      Nombres 24

      20 He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, "Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction."

      Deutéronome 25

      17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;
      19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.

      Juges 3

      13 He gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.

      Juges 5

      14 Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. Governors come down out of Machir. Those who handle the marshal's staff came out of Zebulun.

      Juges 6

      3 So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;
      4 and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.
      5 For they came up with their livestock and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.
      6 Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.
      7 It happened, when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh because of Midian,
      8 that Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel: and he said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
      9 and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land;
      10 and I said to you, "I am Yahweh your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell." But you have not listened to my voice.'"
      11 The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
      12 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, "Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!"
      13 Gideon said to him, "Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, 'Didn't Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?' But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian."
      14 Yahweh looked at him, and said, "Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven't I sent you?"
      15 He said to him, "O Lord , how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house."
      16 Yahweh said to him, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man."
      17 He said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.
      18 Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you." He said, "I will wait until you come back."
      19 Gideon went in, and prepared a young goat, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.
      20 The angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth." He did so.
      21 Then the angel of Yahweh stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock, and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of Yahweh departed out of his sight.
      22 Gideon saw that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face!"
      23 Yahweh said to him, "Peace be to you! Don't be afraid. You shall not die."
      24 Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it "Yahweh is Peace ." To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
      25 It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, "Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;
      26 and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down."
      27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
      28 When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.
      29 They said one to another, "Who has done this thing?" When they inquired and asked, they said, "Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing."
      30 Then the men of the city said to Joash, "Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it."
      31 Joash said to all who stood against him, "Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for him, let him be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has broken down his altar."
      32 Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal, saying, "Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar."
      33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.

      Juges 7

      12 The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.

      Juges 12

      15 Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

      1 Samuel 15

      1 Samuel said to Saul, "Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the words of Yahweh.
      2 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'I have marked that which Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.
      3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"
      4 Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
      5 Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
      6 Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
      7 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.
      8 He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
      9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the cattle, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
      10 Then the word of Yahweh came to Samuel, saying,
      11 "It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
      12 Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, saying, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal."
      13 Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, "You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh."
      14 Samuel said, "Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?"
      15 Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest."
      16 Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh has said to me last night." He said to him, "Say on."
      17 Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;
      18 and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.'
      19 Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but took the spoils, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?"
      20 Saul said to Samuel, "But I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
      21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal."
      22 Samuel said, "Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
      23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king."
      24 Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
      25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh."
      26 Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel."
      27 As Samuel turned about to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
      28 Samuel said to him, "Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.
      29 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent."
      30 Then he said, "I have sinned: yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God."
      31 So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh.
      32 Then Samuel said, "Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites!" Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past."
      33 Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!" Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.
      34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
      35 Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.

      1 Samuel 27

      8 David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.

      1 Samuel 28

      18 Because you didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, and didn't execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you this day.

      1 Samuel 30

      1 It happened, when David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,
      2 and had taken captive the women and all who were therein, both small and great. They didn't kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.
      3 When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.
      4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
      5 David's two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
      6 David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
      7 David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring me here the ephod." Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
      8 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "If I pursue after this troop, shall I overtake them?" He answered him, "Pursue; for you shall surely overtake them, and shall without fail recover all."
      9 So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.
      10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn't go over the brook Besor.
      11 They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.
      12 They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
      13 David asked him, "To whom do you belong? Where are you from?" He said, "I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.
      14 We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire."
      15 David said to him, "Will you bring me down to this troop?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop."
      16 When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
      17 David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.
      18 David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
      19 There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them. David brought back all.
      20 David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, "This is David's spoil."
      21 David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.
      22 Then all the wicked men and base fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, "Because they didn't go with us, we will not give them anything of the spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart."
      23 Then David said, "You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.
      24 Who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who tarries by the baggage: they shall share alike."
      25 It was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.
      26 When David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, "Behold, a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of Yahweh."
      27 He sent it to those who were in Bethel, and to those who were in Ramoth of the South, and to those who were in Jattir,
      28 and to those who were in Aroer, and to those who were in Siphmoth, and to those who were in Eshtemoa,
      29 and to those who were in Racal, and to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,
      30 and to those who were in Hormah, and to those who were in Borashan, and to those who were in Athach,
      31 and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.

      2 Samuel 1

      1 It happened after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag;
      2 it happened on the third day, that behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and showed respect.
      3 David said to him, "Where do you come from?" He said to him, "I have escaped out of the camp of Israel."
      4 David said to him, "How did it go? Please tell me." He answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also."
      5 David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?"
      6 The young man who told him said, "As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.
      7 When he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. I answered, 'Here I am.'
      8 He said to me, 'Who are you?' I answered him, 'I am an Amalekite.'
      9 He said to me, 'Please stand beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.'
      10 So I stood beside him, and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord."
      11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him.
      12 They mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
      13 David said to the young man who told him, "Where are you from?" He answered, "I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite."
      14 David said to him, "How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?"
      15 David called one of the young men, and said, "Go near, and fall on him." He struck him, so that he died.
      16 David said to him, "Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have slain Yahweh's anointed.'"

      2 Samuel 8

      12 of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

      1 Chroniques 1

      36 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.

      1 Chroniques 4

      42 Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

      1 Chroniques 18

      11 King David also dedicated these to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.

      Psaumes 83

      7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
      8 Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.
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