1 Samuel 15:4-9

New American Standard Bible

⁴ Then Saul summoned the people and ^[a]counted them in ^(A)Telaim: two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah. ⁵ And Saul came to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the ^[b]wadi. ⁶ But Saul said to ^(B)the Kenites, “Go, get away, go down from among the Amalekites, so that I do not destroy you along with them; for ^(C)you showed kindness to all the sons of Israel when they went up from Egypt.” So the Kenites got away from among the Amalekites. ⁷ Then ^(D)Saul ^[c]defeated the Amalekites, from ^(E)Havilah ^[d]going toward ^(F)Shur, which is ^[e]east of Egypt. ⁸ He captured ^(G)Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and ^(H)completely destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. ⁹ But Saul and the people ^(I)spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the more valuable animals, the lambs, and everything that was good, and were unwilling to destroy them completely; but everything despicable and weak, that they completely destroyed.