⁴⁸ And he gathered an army and ^(A)attacked^[a] the Amalekites, and delivered Israel from the hands of those who plundered them.

³ Now go and ^(A)attack^[a] Amalek, and ^(B)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.’ ”

⁴ So Saul gathered the people together and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah. ⁵ And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and lay in wait in the valley.

⁶ Then Saul said to ^(C)the Kenites, ^(D)“Go, depart, get down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For ^(E)you showed kindness to all the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. ^7 (F)And Saul attacked the Amalekites, from ^(G)Havilah all the way to ^(H)Shur, which is east of Egypt.

¹⁹ Therefore it shall be, ^(A)when the Lord your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will ^(B)blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, ^(A)“Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that ^(B)I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”