1 Samuel 15:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Gen 13:13 : 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
  • Gen 15:16 : 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.
  • Num 16:38 : 38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel.
  • Job 31:3 : 3 Is not destruction for the wicked, and a strange punishment for the workers of iniquity?
  • Prov 10:29 : 29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
  • Prov 13:21 : 21 Evil pursues sinners, but to the righteous good shall be repaid.

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  • 1 Sam 15:1-3
    3 verses
    85%

    1Samuel also said to Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint you to be king over His people, over Israel: now therefore listen to the voice of the words of the LORD.

    2Thus says the LORD of hosts, I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him on the way, when he came up from Egypt.

    3Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

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

    19Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but flew upon the spoil, and did evil in the sight of the LORD?

    20And Saul said to Samuel, Yes, 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 to the LORD your God in Gilgal.

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

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

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

    7And Saul struck the Amalekites from Havilah until you come to Shur, which is opposite Egypt.

    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 were not willing to utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

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

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

    17The LORD has done to you as he spoke by me: for the LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, to David.

    18Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD, nor execute his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you today.

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

    14And Samuel said, What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

    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 to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

    16Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what the LORD said to me this night. And he said to him, Speak on.

    17And Samuel said, When you were little in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed you king over Israel?

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    79%

    48He gathered an army, struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel from those who plundered them.

  • Deut 25:17-19
    3 verses
    79%

    17Remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you came forth out of Egypt;

    18How he met you on the way and attacked your rear, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.

    19Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget it.

  • Num 14:43
    77%

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

  • Exod 17:8
    76%

    8Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

  • Exod 17:16
    75%

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

  • Exod 17:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Gen 14:7
    74%

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

  • Deut 13:15
    73%

    15You shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

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

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

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

  • Num 14:45
    73%

    45Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who dwelt in that hill, and struck them, and beat them down, even to Hormah.

  • Deut 20:17
    73%

    17But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you:

  • Num 24:20
    73%

    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 forever.

  • Deut 2:15
    73%

    15For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they were consumed.

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    73%

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

  • Deut 31:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4And the LORD shall do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to the land of them, whom he destroyed.

    5And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that you may do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.

  • 1 Sam 16:2
    72%

    2And Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.

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

    13And David said to the young man who told him, Where are you from? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.

    14And David said to him, How are you not afraid to stretch forth your hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?

    15And David called one of the young men and said, Go near, and strike him. And he smote him that he died.

  • Deut 6:19
    72%

    19To cast out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.

  • 2 Kgs 18:25
    72%

    25Have I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

  • 1 Sam 22:16
    72%

    16And the king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house.

  • Jer 15:1
    71%

    1Then the LORD said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

  • 2 Sam 1:8
    71%

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

  • Deut 20:13
    71%

    13And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword: