And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Joshua discomfited. Victory at length decided in favour of Israel, and the glory of the victory was by an act of national piety ascribed to God (cf. 1 John 5:4). Josephus states ('Antiquities,' b. 3:, ch. 2:, sec. 5) that 'not one of the Hebrews was slain; but the slain of the enemy's army were too many to be enumerated.' He also adds, that on the day after the battle the Israelites stripped the dead bodies of the Amalekites of their ornaments, and collected the armour of those that had fled, which was doubtless another source of the abundance of the useful and precious metals which the Israelites appear at Sinai to have possessed.