1 Samuel 15:3
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3 Now go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”(A)
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1 Samuel 15:9
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9 Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the cattle and of the fatted calves,[a] and the lambs, and all that was valuable and would not utterly destroy them; all that was despised and worthless they utterly destroyed.(A)
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- 15.9 Cn: Heb the second ones
1 Kings 20:42
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42 Then he said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Because you have let the man go whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall be for his life and your people for his people.”(A)
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Jeremiah 11:3
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3 You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Cursed be anyone who does not heed the words of this covenant,(A)
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Jeremiah 47:6
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6 Ah, sword of the Lord!
How long until you are quiet?
Put yourself into your scabbard;
rest and be still!(A)
Jeremiah 47:7
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7 How can it[a] be quiet,
when the Lord has given it an order?
Against Ashkelon and against the seashore—
there he has appointed it.(A)
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- 47.7 Gk Vg: Heb you
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