1 Samuel 15:3

15:3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare ¹  them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”

1 Samuel 15:15

15:15 Saul said, “They were brought ²  from the Amalekites; the army spared the best of the flocks and cattle to sacrifice to the Lord our God. But everything else we slaughtered.”

1 Samuel 15:19

15:19 Why haven’t you obeyed ³  the Lord? Instead you have greedily rushed upon the plunder! You have done what is wrong in the Lord’s estimation.” ⁴ 

Joshua 7:21

7:21 I saw among the goods we seized a nice robe from Babylon, ⁵  two hundred silver pieces, ⁶  and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels. I wanted them, so I took them. They are hidden in the ground right in the middle of my tent with the silver underneath.”

¹ tn Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).

² tn Heb “they brought them.”

³ tn Heb “listened to the voice of the Lord.”

⁴ tn Heb “you have done what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

⁵ tn Heb “Shinar,” a reference to Babylon (cf. Gen 10:10; 11:2; 14:1). Many modern translations retain the Hebrew name “Shinar” (cf. NEB, NRSV) but some use the more familiar “Babylon” (cf. NIV, NLT).

⁶ tn Heb “shekels.”