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Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I will ^[b]punish Amalek ^(b)for what he did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt.

Now go and strike Amalek and ^(c)utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but ^(d)put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"

Then Saul summoned the people and ^[c]numbered them in ^(e)Telaim, 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah.

Saul came to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the valley.

Saul said to ^(f)the Kenites, "Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, so that I do not destroy you with them; for ^(g)you showed kindness to all the sons of Israel when they came up from Egypt." So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

So ^(h)Saul ^[d]defeated the Amalekites, from ⁽ⁱ⁾Havilah as you go to ^(j)Shur, which is ^[e]east of Egypt.

He captured ^(k)Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and ^(l)utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

But Saul and the people ^(m)spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to destroy them utterly; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.