1 Samuel 15:3

Translations

Modern

Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

Traditional

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.

Literal

Now go and strike the Amalekite, and utterly destroy all that is unto him, and do not spare him, and kill from man to woman, and from infant to nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

Latin

Nunc ergo vade, et percute Amalec, et demolire universa ejus: non parcas ei, et non concupiscas ex rebus ipsius aliquid, sed interfice a viro usque ad mulierem, et parvulum atque lactentem, bovem et ovem, camelum et asinum.

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English

Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

Notes

1 Samuel 15:3

devote to destruction: See "Complete Dedication" Theme Note.

1 Samuel 15:1–35

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

Samuel Saul The Amalekites Complete Dedication Complete Destruction David's Response to Unfriendly Leaders

Events

Reign of Saul

Related verses

Deuteronomy 20:16–18
However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
Numbers 24:20
Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”
Numbers 31:17
So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,
1 Samuel 22:19
He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.
Isaiah 14:21–22
Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
Leviticus 27:28–29
Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.
Joshua 6:17–21
Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.
Deuteronomy 13:15–16
…you must surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword. Devote to destruction all its people and livestock.
Romans 8:20–22
For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
Genesis 3:17–18
And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Places

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

Glossary

Agag Amalek, Amalekites Holy War Holy War Samuel, Books of First and Second

Topics

Agency in Executing Judgments Amalekites: Defeated by Saul Church and State: Ecclesiastical Power Superior to Civil: Directs Administration Falsehood: Saul Judgments: Upon Nations - Exemplified: Amalekites Presumption: Sparing the Amalekites Retaliation: The Israelites on the Amalekites The Amalekites: Saul: Commissioned to Destroy War of Extermination War: God: Frequently Ordered

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