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The Amalekites of the Bible! 83

The Flight of the Amalekites

When the land of Egypt was con vulsed by the plagues of YEHOVAH God, sim i lar judg -
ments fell upon neigh bor ing civ i li za tions -- in clud ing that of Ara bia. Masudi, an Arab his to rian
who died about 956 A.D., re lates the tra di tion of a tre men dous CATASTROPHE that struck the
Amalekites, and tells of “swift clouds, ants and other signs of the LORD’S RAGE,” when MANY
PERISHED IN MECCA. Ev i dently, a tremendous tor rent of wa ter over whelmed the land of
Djohainah; and the WHOLE POPULATION drowned in a sin gle night.

The scene of this ca tas tro phe is known by the name of “Idam” (Fury); and Omeyah, son of
Abu-Salt of the tribe of Takif, al luded to this event in the fol low ing verse: “In the days of yore, the
Djorhomites set tled in Tehama, and a VIOLENT FLOOD car ried all of them away.”

The Amalekites were PUT TO FLIGHT by these plagues that fell upon them IN ARABIA;
and in their es cape they fol lowed the storm-clouds to wards Egypt. Mean while, MECCA WAS
DESTROYED IN A SINGLE NIGHT amidst a ter ri ble noise; and THE LAND BECAME A
DESERT. His to rian Masudi re lates this di sas ter:

From el-Hadjoum up to Safa ALL BECAME DESERT; in MECCA the nights are si lent, no
voice of pleas ant talk. WE DWELT THERE, but in a most tu mul tu ous night in the most ter -
ri ble of dev as ta tions WE WERE DESTROYED.

Velikovsky picks up the story flow:

In tu mult and dis or der, flee ing the om i nous signs and plagues and driv ing their herds of an i -
mals in fu ri ated by EARTHQUAKES and evil por tents, THE FUGITIVE BANDS OF
AMALEKITES REACHED THE SHORES OF THE RED SEA....

This suc ces sion of phe nom ena helps us to rec og nize that they oc curred AT THE TIME OF
THE ISRAELITES’ ESCAPE FROM EGYPT, also vis ited by plagues. They [the Is ra el ites]
also wit nessed the de struc tive flood at the sea of pas sage, at Pi-ha-khiroth, SHORTLY
BEFORE THEY MET THE AMALEKITES. -- Ages in Chaos, p. 62.

The Is ra el ites met the flee ing Amalekites FOR THE FIRST TIME a few days af ter they had
crossed the Gulf of Aqaba into the land of Midian.

The Invasion of Egypt

No tice, now, what hap pened to the Amalekites AFTER be ing de feated by the Is ra el ites at
Rephidim:

They left Ara bia af ter a SERIES OF PLAGUES, and im me di ately af ter a VIOLENT
EARTHQUAKE. Many of them per ished dur ing the mi gra tion in a SUDDEN FLOOD that
swept the land of Ara bia. They sighted the ISRAELITES com ing out of Egypt, which was
laid in ru ins by a GREAT CATASTROPHE. In this ca tas tro phe the wa ter in the river turned

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