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撒母耳记上 15:7

掃羅擊殺亞瑪力人,從哈腓拉直到埃及東的書珥,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agency;   Amalekites;   Falsehood;   Gilgal;   Havilah;   Repentance;   Retaliation;   Shur;   War;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Amalekites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Amalekites;   Havilah;   Shur;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Amalekites;   Saul, king of israel;   Shur;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Amalekite;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Amalekites;   Edom;   Havilah;   Shur;   Simeon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Havilah;   Samuel, Books of;   Saul;   Shur, Wilderness of;   Vial;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Agag;   Amalek, Amalekites;   Ban;   Israel;   King;   Samuel, Books of;   Shur;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Amalek, Amalekites ;   Havilah ;   Shur;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mordecai;   Mount amalek;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Amalek;   Havilah;   Saul;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Am'alekites,;   Saul;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Amalek;   Havilah;   Shur;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Amalekites;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Amalek, Amalekites;   Havilah;   Parashiyyot, the Four;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
扫 罗 击 打 亚 玛 力 人 , 从 哈 腓 拉 直 到 埃 及 前 的 书 珥 ,

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

smote: 1 Samuel 14:48, Job 21:30, Ecclesiastes 8:13

Havilah: This Havilah was probably situated in Arabia, and the district of Chaulon may mark the spot. It seems different from that encompassed by the river Pison, one of the rivers of Eden. Genesis 2:11, Genesis 25:18

Shur: 1 Samuel 27:8, Genesis 16:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 10:29 - Havilah Genesis 20:1 - Kadesh Exodus 15:22 - wilderness of Shur Exodus 17:14 - for I will Judges 12:15 - in the mount 1 Samuel 27:9 - left neither 1 Samuel 30:1 - the Amalekites 1 Chronicles 1:23 - Havilah 1 Chronicles 4:43 - the rest

Cross-References

Genesis 12:1
The Lord said to Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's family, and go to the land I will show you.
Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your descendants." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord , who had appeared to him.
Genesis 15:2
But Abram said, "Lord God , what can you give me? I have no son, so my slave Eliezer from Damascus will get everything I own after I die."
Genesis 15:4
Then the Lord spoke his word to Abram: "He will not be the one to inherit what you have. You will have a son of your own who will inherit what you have."
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 15:15
And you, Abram, will die in peace and will be buried at an old age.
Genesis 15:17
After the sun went down, it was very dark. Suddenly a smoking firepot and a blazing torch passed between the halves of the dead animals.
Psalms 105:11
The Lord said, "I will give you the land of Canaan, and it will belong to you."
Psalms 105:42
He remembered his holy promise to his servant Abraham.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Saul smote the Amalekites,.... Engaging in battle with them, he overcame them, and beat them, and slew great numbers of them:

from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt; having routed them in the valley, or in whatsoever place the battle was fought, he pursued them from one end of their country to the other; from Havilah, which lay to the northeast, to Shur, which lay to the southwest, and destroyed all that came in his way between those two points, see Genesis 25:18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The district here described would stretch from Havilah on the extreme east to Shur, either near Suez, or further north on the coast road from Gaza to Egypt.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 15:7. From Havilah - to Shur — From Pelusium in Egypt, unto the Red Sea.-Josephus. But Havilah lay eastward from the Red Sea; the Amalekites lay between this and the way to Egypt towards Shur.


 
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