1 Samuel 15:5

And Saul came to the cities of Amalec, and laid wait in the + 15:5 Gr. brook. valley.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

In Context

4And Saul summoned the people, and he + 15:4 Gr. numbers. numbered them in Galgala, four hundred thousand + 15:4 Gr. of ranks. regular troops, and Juda thirty thousand regular troops.

6And Saul said to the Kinite, Go, and depart out of the midst of the Amalekites, lest I put you with them; for you dealt mercifully with the children of Israel when they went up out of Egypt. So the Kinite departed from the midst of Amalec.

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Cross References

Joshua 8:12-13 And the ambuscade was on the west side of the city.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 15:2-10

The Amalekites Destroyed. ( b. c. 1065.) 1 Samuel also said unto Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the Lord . 2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. 3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.… Read the whole commentary →

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