1 Samuel 15:1-8 ▼

1 Then Samuel said to Saul, |I was the one the LORD sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the LORD says.

2 Here is what the LORD of hosts says: 'I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed Israel along the way when Israel came up from Egypt.

3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don't spare them. Put them to death--man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.'|

4 So Saul assembled the army and mustered them at Telaim. There were 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah.

5 Saul proceeded to the city of Amalek, where he set an ambush in the wadi.

6 Saul said to the Kenites, |Go on and leave! Go down from among the Amalekites! Otherwise I will sweep you away with them! After all, you were kind to all the Israelites when they came up from Egypt.| So the Kenites withdrew from among the Amalekites.

7 Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is next to Egypt.

8 He captured King Agag of the Amalekites alive, but he executed all Agag's people with the sword.