Symbolism: "But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun" (Exod 17:12).
The enemy were the Amelkites ("blood-licking" Edomites). Josephus called them "bastards." Moses ("Deliverer") was symbolic of Jesus Christ, and the Amelkites the Devil. The stone was symbolic of an altar which in early times were made only from unhewn stone.
Therein is a picture of the Deliverer on an altar. Visualize Aaron and Hur holding up Moses's arms in the form of a cross. Aaron means "bearer of martyrs" and Hur, "noble man." Between Aaron and Hur, Jesus was identified as well as his purpose as the cross held the man Jesus who was martyred as God.
Shortly, from verse 17, we find that Moses built altar there and made the place Holy Ground. He named it Jehovah-nissi, meaning "lift up Jehovah or Yahweh." Jesus's name means "Yahweh Delivers." How direct can it be? Jesus was there in the wilderness of Sin saving the Hebrew people from perishing!
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