1 Samuel 15:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the Lord sent you on a journey and said, Go and put to the curse those sinners, the Amalekites, fighting against them till every one is dead.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 13:13 : 13 Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.
  • Gen 15:16 : 16 And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.
  • Num 16:38 : 38 And let the vessels of those men, who with their lives have made payment for their sin, be hammered out into plates as a cover for the altar; for they have been offered before the Lord and are holy; so that they may be a sign to the children of Israel.
  • Job 31:3 : 3 Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?
  • Prov 10:29 : 29 The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.
  • Prov 13:21 : 21 Evil will overtake sinners, but the upright will be rewarded with good.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 15:1-3
    3 verses
    85%

    1 And Samuel said to Saul, The Lord sent me to put the holy oil on you and to make you king over his people, over Israel: so give ear now to the words of the Lord.

    2 The Lord of armies says, I will give punishment to Amalek for what he did to Israel, fighting against him on the way when Israel came out of Egypt.

    3 Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.

  • 1 Sam 15:19-21
    3 verses
    83%

    19 Why then did you not do the orders of the Lord, but by violently taking their goods did evil in the eyes of the Lord?

    20 And Saul said, Truly, I have done the orders of the Lord and have gone the way the Lord sent me; I have taken Agag, the king of Amalek, and have given the Amalekites up to destruction.

    21 But the people took some of their goods, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which were put to the curse, to make an offering of them to the Lord your God in Gilgal.

  • 1 Sam 15:5-10
    6 verses
    82%

    5 And Saul came to the town of Amalek, and took up his position in the valley secretly.

    6 And Saul said to the Kenites, Go away, take yourselves out from among the Amalekites, or destruction will overtake you with them: for you were kind to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt. So the Kenites went away from among the Amalekites.

    7 And Saul made an attack on the Amalekites from Havilah on the road to Shur, which is before Egypt.

    8 He took Agag, king of the Amalekites, prisoner, and put all the people to the sword without mercy.

    9 But Saul and the people did not put Agag to death, and they kept the best of the sheep and the oxen and the fat beasts and the lambs, and whatever was good, not desiring to put them to the curse: but everything which was bad and of no use they put to the curse.

    10 Then the Lord said to Samuel,

  • 1 Sam 28:17-18
    2 verses
    82%

    17 And the Lord himself has done what I said: the Lord has taken the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbour David;

    18 Because you did not do what the Lord said, and did not give effect to his burning wrath against Amalek. So the Lord has done this thing to you today.

  • 1 Sam 15:14-17
    4 verses
    81%

    14 And Samuel said, What then is this sound of the crying of sheep and the noise of oxen which comes to my ears?

    15 And Saul said, They have taken them from the Amalekites: for the people have kept the best of the sheep and of the oxen as an offering to the Lord your God; all the rest we have given up to destruction.

    16 Then Samuel said to Saul, Say no more! Let me give you word of what the Lord has said to me this night. And he said to him, Say on.

    17 And Samuel said, Though you may seem little to yourself, are you not head of the tribes of Israel? for the Lord with the holy oil made you king over Israel,

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    79%

    48 And he did great things, and overcame the Amalekites, and made Israel safe from the hands of their attackers.

  • Deut 25:17-19
    3 verses
    79%

    17 Keep in mind what Amalek did to you on your way from Egypt;

    18 How, meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you when you were tired and without strength, cutting off all the feeble ones at the end of your line; and the fear of God was not in him.

    19 So when the Lord your God has given you rest from all who are against you on every side, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, see to it that the memory of Amalek is cut off from the earth; keep this in mind.

  • Num 14:43
    77%

    43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will be put to death by their swords: because you have gone back from the way of the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.

  • Exod 17:8
    76%

    8 Then Amalek came and made war on Israel in Rephidim.

  • Exod 17:16
    75%

    16 For he said, The Lord has taken his oath that there will be war with Amalek from generation to generation.

  • Exod 17:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13 And Joshua overcame Amalek and his people with the sword.

    14 And the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a book, so that it may be kept in memory, and say it again in the ears of Joshua: that all memory of Amalek is to be completely uprooted from the earth.

  • Gen 14:7
    74%

    7 Then they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar.

  • Deut 13:15
    73%

    15 Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.

  • 1 Sam 15:32-33
    2 verses
    73%

    32 Then Samuel said, Make Agag, the king of the Amalekites, come here to me. And Agag came to him shaking with fear. And Agag said, Truly the pain of death is past.

    33 And Samuel said, As your sword has made women without children, so now your mother will be without children among women. And Agag was cut up by Samuel, bone from bone, before the Lord in Gilgal.

  • Num 14:45
    73%

    45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who were living in the hill-country, and overcame them completely, driving them back as far as Hormah.

  • Deut 20:17
    73%

    17 Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders:

  • Num 24:20
    73%

    20 Then, turning his eyes to Amalek, he went on with his story and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his part will be destruction for ever.

  • Deut 2:15
    73%

    15 For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    73%

    43 And they put to death the rest of the Amalekites who had got away safely, and made it their living-place to this day.

  • Deut 31:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4 The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he put to destruction.

    5 The Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are to do to them as I have given you orders.

  • 1 Sam 16:2
    72%

    2 And Samuel said, How is it possible for me to go? If Saul gets news of it he will put me to death. And the Lord said, Take a young cow with you and say, I have come to make an offering to the Lord.

  • 2 Sam 1:13-15
    3 verses
    72%

    13 And David said to the young man who had given him the news, Where do you come from? And he said, I am the son of a man from a strange land; I am an Amalekite.

    14 And David said to him, Had you no fear of stretching out your hand to put to death the one marked with the holy oil?

    15 And David sent for one of his young men and said, Go near and put an end to him. And he put him to death.

  • Deut 6:19
    72%

    19 To send out from before you all those who are against you.

  • 2 Kgs 18:25
    72%

    25 And have I now come up to send destruction on this place without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.

  • 1 Sam 22:16
    72%

    16 And the king said, You will certainly be put to death, Ahimelech, you and all your father's family.

  • Jer 15:1
    71%

    1 Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.

  • 2 Sam 1:8
    71%

    8 And he said to me, Who are you? And I said, I am an Amalekite.

  • Deut 20:13
    71%

    13 And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.