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 17:52

17:52 Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward, shouting a battle cry. ²  They chased the Philistines to the valley ³  and to the very gates of Ekron. The Philistine corpses lay fallen along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.

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

² tn Heb “arose and cried out.”

³ tc Most of the LXX ms tradition has here “Gath.”