1 Samuel 15:18

Modern

…and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’

Traditional

And the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

Literal

And YHWH sent you in the way and said, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekite, and fight against them until they are consumed.’

Latin

…et misit te Dominus in viam, et ait: Vade, et interfice peccatores Amalec, et pugnabis contra eos usque ad internecionem eorum?

Hebrew

English

…and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’

After Saul disobeyed God by not completely destroying the Amalekites, God rejected him more strongly than before (see 1 Samuel 13:8–14).

Theme notes and profiles

Job 31:3
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
Numbers 16:38
As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”
Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.
Proverbs 10:29
The way of the LORD is a refuge to the upright, but destruction awaits those who do evil.
Genesis 15:16
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
Proverbs 13:21
Disaster pursues sinners, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.

Amalek: A nomadic people, descendants of Esau, enemies of Israel