²“Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘I will ¹punish Amalek ^afor what he did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt.

³‘Now go and strike Amalek and ^adevote to destruction all that he has, and do not spare him; but ^bput to death both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

⁴Then Saul summoned the people and ¹numbered them in ^aTelaim, 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah.

⁵And Saul came to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the valley.

⁶And Saul said to ^athe Kenites, “Go, depart; go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; ^byou showed lovingkindness to all the sons of Israel when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

⁷So ^aSaul struck the Amalekites, from ^bHavilah as you go to ^cShur, which is ¹east of Egypt.

⁸And he seized ^aAgag the king of the Amalekites alive and ^bdevoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword.

⁹But Saul and the people ^aspared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and they were not willing to devote them to destruction; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.

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Cross references

a Ex 17:8–16; Num 24:20; Deut 25:17–19
a Num 24:20; Deut 20:16–18; Josh 6:17–21
b 1 Sam 22:19
a Josh 15:24
a Num 24:21; Judg 1:16; 4:11
b Ex 18:9, 10; Num 10:29–32
a 1 Sam 14:48
b Gen 25:18
c Gen 16:7; Ex 15:22; 1 Sam 27:8
a Num 24:7; 1 Sam 15:20; Esth 3:1
b 1 Sam 27:8, 9; 30:1; 2 Sam 8:12
a 1 Sam 15:3, 15, 19