1 Samuel 15:5

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

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  • 1 Sam 15:6-10
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    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 15:1-4
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    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.

    4 And Saul sent for the people and had them numbered in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah.

  • 1 Sam 15:15-16
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    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.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
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    48 And he did great things, and overcame the Amalekites, and made Israel safe from the hands of their attackers.

  • 1 Sam 15:18-20
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    18 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.

    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.

  • 1 Sam 17:2
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    2 And Saul and the men of Israel came together and took up their position in the valley of Elah, and put their forces in order against the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 26:3
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    3 And Saul put up his tents on the hill of Hachilah, which is in front of the waste land on the road. But David was in the waste land, and he saw that Saul was coming after him.

  • 1 Sam 26:5
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    5 And David got up and came to the place where Saul's tents were: and David had a view of the place where Saul was sleeping with Abner, the son of Ner, the captain of his army: and Saul was sleeping inside the ring of carts, and the tents of the people were all round him.

  • Deut 25:17-18
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    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.

  • 1 Sam 11:5
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    5 Now Saul came from the field, driving the oxen before him; and he said, Why are the people weeping? And they gave him word of what the men of Jabesh had said.

  • Exod 17:8
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    8 Then Amalek came and made war on Israel in Rephidim.

  • 1 Sam 17:19
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    19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 23:25-27
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    25 And Saul and his men went in search of him. And David had word of it, so he came down to the rock in the waste land of Maon. And Saul, hearing of this, went after David into the waste land of Maon.

    26 And Saul and his men went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men went on the other: and David's purpose was to get away as quickly as possible, for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men were making a circle round David and his men in order to take them.

    27 But a man came to Saul saying, Be quick and come; for the Philistines have made an attack on the land.

  • 1 Sam 23:7-8
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    7 And news was given to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, Now God has given him into my hands; for by going into a walled town with locked doors, he has let himself be shut in.

    8 And Saul sent for all the people to come to the fight, and go down to Keilah to make an attack on David and his men.

  • 1 Chr 4:43
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    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.

  • 1 Sam 15:12
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    12 And early in the morning he got up and went to Saul; and word was given to Samuel that Saul had come to Carmel and put up a pillar, and had gone from there down to Gilgal.

  • 1 Sam 24:3
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    3 Then Saul took three thousand of the best men out of all Israel, and went in search of David and his men on the rocks of the mountain goats.

  • 1 Sam 14:36
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    36 And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, attacking them till the morning, till there is not a man of them living. And they said, Do whatever seems right to you. Then the priest said, Let us come near to God.

  • 1 Sam 9:14-15
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    14 So they went up to the town, and when they came inside the town, Samuel came face to face with them on his way to the high place.

    15 Now the day before Saul came, the word of God had come to Samuel, saying,

  • 1 Sam 14:2
    71%

    2 And Saul was still waiting in the farthest part of Geba, under the fruit-tree in Migron: there were about six hundred men with him;

  • 1 Sam 23:15
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    15 And David was full of fear, in the knowledge that Saul had come out to take his life; and David was in the waste land of Ziph, in Horesh.

  • Gen 14:7
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    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.

  • 1 Sam 23:10
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    10 Then David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, news has been given to your servant that it is Saul's purpose to come to Keilah and send destruction on the town because of me.

  • Num 14:25
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    25 Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites are in the valley; tomorrow, turning round, go into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea.

  • 1 Sam 15:34
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    34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah, in the land of Saul.

  • 1 Sam 13:15
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    15 Then Samuel went up from Gilgal and the rest of the people went up after Saul against the men of war, and they came from Gilgal to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin: and Saul took the number of the people who were with him, about six hundred men.

  • 1 Sam 30:1
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    1 Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made an attack on the South and on Ziklag, and had overcome Ziklag and put it on fire;

  • 1 Sam 15:32
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    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.

  • 1 Sam 28:4
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    4 And the Philistines came together and put their forces in position in Shunem; and Saul got all Israel together and they took up their positions in Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 9:10
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    10 Then Saul said to his servant, You have said well; come, let us go. So they went to the town where the man of God was.

  • Num 14:45
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    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.

  • 2 Sam 1:1
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    1 Now after the death of Saul, when David, having come back from the destruction of the Amalekites, had been in Ziklag for two days;

  • 1 Sam 9:27
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    27 And on their way down to the end of the town, Samuel said to Saul, Give your servant orders to go on in front of us, (so he went on,) but you keep here, so that I may give you the word of God.

  • 1 Chr 10:7-8
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    7 And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the men of Israel had gone in flight and that Saul and his sons were dead, they went in flight away from their towns; and the Philistines came and took them for themselves.

    8 Now the day after, when the Philistines came to take their goods from the dead, they saw Saul and his sons dead in Mount Gilboa.