³ Now go and strike Amalek and ^(A)completely destroy everything that he has, and do not spare him; but ^(B)put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

¹⁵ Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for ^(A)the people spared the best of the sheep and oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God; but the rest we have completely destroyed.”

¹⁹ Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? ^(A)Instead, you loudly rushed upon the spoils and did what was evil in the sight of the Lord!”