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1 Samuel 15:2-3

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15:2 Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed 1  Israel along the way when Israel 2  came up from Egypt. 15:3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare 3  them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”

1 Samuel 15:7-8

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15:7 Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to 4  Shur, which is next to Egypt. 15:8 He captured King Agag of the Amalekites alive, but he executed all Agag’s people 5  with the sword.

1 Samuel 15:18

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15:18 The Lord sent you on a campaign 6  saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you 7  have destroyed them.’
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[15:2]  1 tn Heb “what Amalek did to Israel, how he placed against him.”

[15:2]  2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:3]  3 tn Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).

[15:7]  4 tn Heb “[as] you enter.”

[15:8]  5 tn Heb “all the people.” For clarity “Agag’s” has been supplied in the translation.

[15:18]  6 tn Heb “journey.”

[15:18]  7 tc The translation follows the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum in reading the second person singular suffix (“you”) rather than the third person plural suffix of the MT (“they”).



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