1 Samuel 15:2–9

²Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, ^bhow he ^claid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. ³Now go and smite Amalek, and ^dutterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay ^eboth man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. ⁴And Saul ^fgathered the people together, and numbered them in ^gTelaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. ⁵And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. ⁶And Saul said unto ^hthe Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ⁱye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. ⁷And ^jSaul smote the Amalekites from ^kHavilah until thou comest to ^lShur, that is over against Egypt. ⁸And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed ^mall the people with the edge of the sword. ⁹But Saul and the people ⁿspared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.