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1 Samuel 15:3

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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.’ ”

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1 Samuel 15:3 in other translations

Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

1 Samuel 15:3 · American Standard Version

1 Samuel 15:3 in context

  1. 1Samuel said to Saul, “Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of Yahweh’s words.
  2. 2Yahweh of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way, when he came up out of Egypt.
  3. 3Now 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. 4Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
  5. 5Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.