1 Samuel 15:4-9
1599 Geneva Bible
4 ¶ And Saul assembled the people, and [a]numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and [b]set watch at the river.
6 And Saul said unto the [c]Kenites, Go, depart, and get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye showed [d]mercy to all the children of Israel, when they came up from Egypt: and the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
7 So Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah, as thou comest to Shur, that is before Egypt,
8 And took Agag the King of the Amalekites alive, and destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the better sheep, and the oxen, and the fat beasts, and the lambs, and all that was good, and they would not destroy them; but everything that was vile and nought worth, that they destroyed.
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- 1 Samuel 15:4 Or, knew their number by the lambs which they brought.
- 1 Samuel 15:5 Or, fought in the valley.
- 1 Samuel 15:6 Which were the posterity of Jethro Moses’ father-in-law.
- 1 Samuel 15:6 For Jethro came to visit them, and gave them good counsel, Exod. 18:19.
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