This is what the Lord of Hosts says: ‘I witnessed[a] what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they opposed them along the way as they were coming out of Egypt.(A) Now go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have.(B) Do not spare them. Kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”(C)

Then Saul summoned the troops and counted them at Telaim: 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men from Judah.

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  1. 1 Samuel 15:2 LXX reads I will avenge

Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, (A)how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt. Now go and (B)attack[a] Amalek, and (C)utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”

So Saul gathered the people together and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah.

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  1. 1 Samuel 15:3 Lit. strike