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“And now the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, asks you: Why are you destroying yourselves? For not one of you will survive—not a man, woman, or child among you who has come here from Judah, not even the babies in your arms.

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“Now this is what the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Why bring such great disaster(A) on yourselves by cutting off from Judah the men and women,(B) the children and infants, and so leave yourselves without a remnant?(C)

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10 But by the murders you committed,
    you have shamed your name and forfeited your lives.

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10 You have plotted the ruin(A) of many peoples,
    shaming(B) your own house and forfeiting your life.

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22 With you I will shatter men and women,
    old people and children,
    young men and young women.

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22 with you I shatter man and woman,
    with you I shatter old man and youth,
    with you I shatter young man and young woman,(A)

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38 Take the incense burners of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, and hammer the metal into a thin sheet to overlay the altar. Since these burners were used in the Lord’s presence, they have become holy. Let them serve as a warning to the people of Israel.”

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38 the censers of the men who sinned at the cost of their lives.(A) Hammer the censers into sheets to overlay the altar,(B) for they were presented before the Lord and have become holy. Let them be a sign(C) to the Israelites.”

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11 As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of wicked people. I only want them to turn from their wicked ways so they can live. Turn! Turn from your wickedness, O people of Israel! Why should you die?

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11 Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live.(A) Turn!(B) Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?’(C)

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11 I have cried until the tears no longer come;
    my heart is broken.
My spirit is poured out in agony
    as I see the desperate plight of my people.
Little children and tiny babies
    are fainting and dying in the streets.

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11 My eyes fail from weeping,(A)
    I am in torment within(B);
my heart(C) is poured out(D) on the ground
    because my people are destroyed,(E)
because children and infants faint(F)
    in the streets of the city.

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14 Of that remnant who fled to Egypt, hoping someday to return to Judah, there will be no survivors. Even though they long to return home, only a handful will do so.”

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14 None of the remnant of Judah who have gone to live in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, to which they long to return and live; none will return except a few fugitives.”(A)

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21 For death has crept in through our windows
    and has entered our mansions.
It has killed off the flower of our youth:
    Children no longer play in the streets,
    and young men no longer gather in the squares.

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21 Death has climbed in through our windows(A)
    and has entered our fortresses;
it has removed the children from the streets
    and the young men(B) from the public squares.

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19 Am I the one they are hurting?” asks the Lord. “Most of all, they hurt themselves, to their own shame.”

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19 But am I the one they are provoking?(A) declares the Lord. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?(B)

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32 If you reject discipline, you only harm yourself;
    but if you listen to correction, you grow in understanding.

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32 Those who disregard discipline despise themselves,(A)
    but the one who heeds correction gains understanding.(B)

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Now go and completely destroy[a] the entire Amalekite nation—men, women, children, babies, cattle, sheep, goats, camels, and donkeys.”

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Footnotes

  1. 15:3 The Hebrew term used here refers to the complete consecration of things or people to the Lord, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering; also in 15:8, 9, 15, 18, 20, 21.

Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally(A) destroy[a] all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 15:3 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verses 8, 9, 15, 18, 20 and 21.

11 “This is what you are to do,” they said. “Completely destroy[a] all the males and every woman who is not a virgin.”

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Footnotes

  1. 21:11 The Hebrew term used here refers to the complete consecration of things or people to the Lord, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering.

11 “This is what you are to do,” they said. “Kill every male(A) and every woman who is not a virgin.(B)

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21 They completely destroyed everything in it with their swords—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep, goats, and donkeys.

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21 They devoted(A) the city to the Lord and destroyed(B) with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

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