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Then Saul summoned the people and [a]numbered them in (A)Telaim, 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah. And Saul came to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the valley. And Saul said to (B)the Kenites, “Go, depart; go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; (C)you showed lovingkindness to all the sons of Israel when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. So (D)Saul struck the Amalekites, from (E)Havilah as you go to (F)Shur, which is [b]east of Egypt. And he seized (G)Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and (H)devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword. But Saul and the people (I)spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and they were not willing to devote them to destruction; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.

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  1. 1 Samuel 15:4 Lit mustered
  2. 1 Samuel 15:7 Lit before

So Saul summoned the men and mustered them at Telaim—two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand from Judah. Saul went to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the ravine. Then he said to the Kenites,(A) “Go away, leave the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you along with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.

Then Saul attacked the Amalekites(B) all the way from Havilah to Shur,(C) near the eastern border of Egypt. He took Agag(D) king of the Amalekites alive,(E) and all his people he totally destroyed with the sword. But Saul and the army spared(F) Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves[a] and lambs—everything that was good. These they were unwilling to destroy completely, but everything that was despised and weak they totally destroyed.

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  1. 1 Samuel 15:9 Or the grown bulls; the meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.