◄ 1 Samuel 15:7 ►
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Good News Translation
Saul defeated the Amalekites, fighting all the way from Havilah to Shur, east of Egypt;

New Revised Standard Version
Saul defeated the Amalekites, from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.

Contemporary English Version
and Saul attacked the Amalekites from Havilah to Shur, which is just east of Egypt.

New American Bible
Saul routed Amalek from Havilah to the approaches of Shur, on the frontier of Egypt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila, until thou comest to Sur, which is over against Egypt.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila, until thou comest to Sur, which is over against Egypt.

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1 Samuel 14:48 And gathering together an army, he defeated Amalec, and delivered Israel from the hand of them that spoiled them.

Job 21:30 Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.

Ecclesiastes 8:13 But let it not be well with the wicked, neither let his days be prolonged, but as a shadow let them pass away that fear not the face of the Lord.

Genesis 2:11 The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth.

Genesis 25:18 And he dwelt from Hevila as far as Sur, which looketh towards Egypt, to them that go towards the Assyrians. He died in the presence of all his brethren.

Shur

1 Samuel 27:8 And David and his men went up, and pillaged Gessuri, and Gerzi, and the Amalecites: for these were of old the inhabitants of the countries, as men go to Sur, even to the land of Egypt.

Genesis 16:7 And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,

Context
Saul's Disobedience
…6And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart, and get ye down from Amalec: lest I destroy thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. And the Cinite departed from the midst of Amalec. 7And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila, until thou comest to Sur, which is over against Egypt.8And he took Agag, the king of Amalec, alive: but all the common people he slew with the edge of the sword.…
Cross References
Genesis 16:7
And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,

Genesis 25:18
And he dwelt from Hevila as far as Sur, which looketh towards Egypt, to them that go towards the Assyrians. He died in the presence of all his brethren.

Exodus 15:22
And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went forth into the wilderness of Sur: and they marched three days through the wilderness, and found no water.

1 Samuel 14:48
And gathering together an army, he defeated Amalec, and delivered Israel from the hand of them that spoiled them.

1 Samuel 27:8
And David and his men went up, and pillaged Gessuri, and Gerzi, and the Amalecites: for these were of old the inhabitants of the countries, as men go to Sur, even to the land of Egypt.

1 Samuel 30:1
Now when David and his men were come to Siceleg on the third day, the Amalecites had made an invasion on the south side upon Siceleg, and had smitten Siceleg, and burnt it with fire,

1 Chronicles 4:43
And they slew the remnant of the Amalecites, who had been able to escape, and they dwelt there in their stead unto this day.

1 Samuel 15:6
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