1 Samuel 15:7

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 14:48 : 48 And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
  • Gen 16:7 : 7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
  • Gen 25:18 : 18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.
  • 1 Sam 27:8 : 8 And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.
  • Exod 15:22 : 22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
  • Gen 2:11 : 11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
  • Job 21:30 : 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 15:8-10
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    82%

    8And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

    9But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

    10Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,

  • 1 Sam 15:1-6
    6 verses
    82%

    1Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.

    2Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

    3Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

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

    5And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

    6And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

  • 1 Sam 15:18-21
    4 verses
    81%

    18And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

    19Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?

    20And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

    21But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.

  • 1 Sam 14:46-48
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    46Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place.

    47So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.

    48And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.

  • 1 Sam 15:15
    80%

    15And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

  • Gen 14:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

    7And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.

  • Deut 25:17-19
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    77%

    17Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;

    18How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

    19Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

  • 1 Sam 27:8-10
    3 verses
    76%

    8And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.

    9And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.

    10And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    75%

    43And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.

  • Num 14:45
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    45Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.

  • Exod 17:8
    74%

    8Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

  • Exod 17:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

    14And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

  • 1 Sam 15:32-34
    3 verses
    73%

    32Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

    33And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

    34Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

  • 1 Sam 28:18
    73%

    18Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.

  • Num 24:20
    72%

    20And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.

  • Num 14:43
    72%

    43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.

  • Exod 17:16
    71%

    16For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

  • Num 14:25
    70%

    25(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

  • Judg 6:3-4
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    70%

    3And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;

    4And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.

  • 1 Sam 30:1
    70%

    1And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;

  • 2 Sam 1:13
    69%

    13And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.

  • 1 Sam 14:36
    68%

    36And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.

  • Josh 13:4
    68%

    4From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:

  • 1 Sam 30:14
    68%

    14We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.

  • 2 Sam 1:1
    68%

    1Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;

  • Num 13:29
    68%

    29The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

  • 1 Sam 26:3
    68%

    3And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.