EXODUS 17:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
When Moses' hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up — one on one side, one on the other — so that his hands remained steady till sunset. The tiredness of Moses' hands is not a theological failure but a human physical reality. The response — a stone for a seat, Aaron and Hur holding the arms — is the community supporting what one person cannot sustain alone. The stone provided for Moses to sit on while his hands are held up is a small act of practical service that determines the outcome of a battle. Galatians 6:2 says carry each other's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. Aaron and Hur carrying Moses' arms is the fulfillment of that principle centuries before Paul articulates it. The body of God's people holds up the arms that the battle requires.
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