1 Samuel 15:5

Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah.

6Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from amongst 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 amongst the Amalekites.

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Cross References

Joshua 8:12He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, 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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