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1 Samuel 15:5 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley. "
1 Samuel 15:5
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3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
4 Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah.
5 Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.
6 Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for 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 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, which is before Egypt.
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1 Samuel 15:1
"Samuel said to Saul, “The LORD sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the LORD’s words."
1 Samuel 15:2
"The LORD of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way when he came up out of Egypt."
1 Samuel 15:3
"Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”"
1 Samuel 15:4
"Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah."
1 Samuel 15:6
"Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites."
1 Samuel 15:7
"Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, which is before Egypt."
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