撒母耳记上 15:5

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

掃羅到了亞瑪力人的城市，就在山谷中設下伏兵。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
扫 罗 到 了 亚 玛 力 的 京 城 ， 在 谷 中 设 下 埋 伏 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Samuel said to Saul, "The Lord sent me to appoint you king over Israel. Now listen to his message. ² This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: ‘When the Israelites came out of Egypt, the Amalekites tried to stop them from going to Canaan. So I will punish them. ³ Now go, attack the Amalekites and destroy everything they own as an offering to the Lord . Don't let anything live. Put to death men and women, children and small babies, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.'" ⁴ So Saul called the army together at Telaim. There were two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men from Judah. ⁵ Then Saul went to the city of Amalek and set up an ambush in the ravine. ⁶ He said to the Kenites, "Go away. Leave the Amalekites so that I won't destroy you with them, because you showed kindness to the Israelites when they came out of Egypt." So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites. ⁷ Then Saul defeated the Amalekites. He fought them all the way from Havilah to Shur, at the border of Egypt. ⁸ He took King Agag of the Amalekites alive, but he killed all of Agag's army with the sword. ⁹ Saul and the army let Agag live, along with the best sheep, fat cattle, and lambs. They let every good animal live, because they did not want to destroy them. But when they found an animal that was weak or useless, they killed it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

laid wait: or, fought, 1 Samuel 15:5

Reciprocal: Joshua 8:4 - lie in wait

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you. I will make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.

Genesis 13:16
I will make your descendants as many as the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust on the earth, he could count your people.

Genesis 15:7
God said to Abram, "I am the Lord who led you out of Ur of Babylonia so that I could give you this land to own."

Genesis 15:8
But Abram said, "Lord God , how can I be sure that I will own this land?"

Genesis 16:10
The angel also said, "I will give you so many descendants they cannot be counted."

Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you and give you many descendants. They will be as many as the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, and they will capture the cities of their enemies.

Genesis 26:4
I will give you many descendants, as hard to count as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. Through your descendants all the nations on the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 28:14
Your descendants will be as many as the dust of the earth. They will spread west and east, north and south, and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

Exodus 32:13
Remember the men who served you—Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. You promised with an oath to them and said, ‘I will make your descendants as many as the stars in the sky. I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised them, and it will be theirs forever.'"

Deuteronomy 1:10
The Lord your God has made you grow in number so that there are as many of you as there are stars in the sky.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Saul came to a city of Amalek,.... With his army, perhaps the nearest city of it to the land of Israel; though some think that Amalek was the name of the city, and was the metropolis of the nation, and had its name from thence: and laid wait in the valley; which was near the city, to intercept the inhabitants when they should come out against him: or "he contended" w as some render it, he fought with them there; the Targum,

"he ordered his army,''

set them in battle array, or pitched his camp there.

w וירב "et certavit Pagninus"; "ut contenderet cum eo", Junius & Tremellius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 15:5. Saul came to a city of Amalek — I believe the original should be translated, and Saul came to the city Amalek; their capital being called by the name of their tribe.