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.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
5Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.
7Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, which is before Egypt.
Cross References
Genesis 18:25May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Exodus 18:9Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
Numbers 10:29Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which the LORD said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for the LORD has spoken good concerning Israel.”
Numbers 16:34All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
Judges 1:16The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.
Judges 5:24“Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
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 →