1 Samuel 15 Samuel orders Saul to destroy the Amalekites

 1 Samuel 15

Samuel orders Saul to destroy the Amalekites

1 Then Samuel said to Saul, The Lord has sent me to anoint you king over his people, over Israel: now hear the voice of the Lord's words.

2 Thus says the Lord of hosts: I remembered what Amelech did to Israel; as he opposed him on the way, when he was coming up from Egypt.

3 Now go now and strike Amalek; and totally destroys everything he has, and do not forgive him; but you will kill from man to woman, from children to breastfeeders, from oxen to sheep, and from camels to donkeys.

4 And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Teilaim, two hundred thousand men standing, and ten thousand men of Judah.

5 So when Saul came to the city of Amalek, he set an ambush in the valley.

6 And Saul said to the Kenites, Go away, go away and go out from among the Amalekites, lest they destroy you with them, because you were merciful to all the children of Israel when they came up from Egypt. So the Kenites withdrew from the Amalekites.

7 Then Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until he reached Sur, which is opposite Egypt.

8 And he took Aguague king of the Amalekites alive; but all the people destroyed with the sword.

9 And Saul and the people forgave Agag, and the best of sheep and cows, and those of the second lot, and the lambs and the best that was, and they did not want to destroy them completely: but they destroyed all the vile and despicable thing totally.