1 Samuel 15:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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

    6 And 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.

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

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

    9 But 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.

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

  • 1 Sam 15:1-4
    4 verses
    80%

    1 Samuel 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.

    2 Thus 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.

    3 Now 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.

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

  • 1 Sam 15:15-16
    2 verses
    78%

    15 And 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.

    16 Then 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.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    77%

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

  • 1 Sam 15:18-20
    3 verses
    75%

    18 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.

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

    20 And 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.

  • 1 Sam 17:2
    74%

    2 And Saul and the men of Israel gathered and camped by the Valley of Elah, setting the battle in array against the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 26:3
    74%

    3 And Saul camped on the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the road. But David remained in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul had come after him into the wilderness.

  • 1 Sam 26:5
    74%

    5 And David arose and came to the place where Saul had camped. And David saw where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army. Saul lay within the camp, and the people were camped around him.

  • Deut 25:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

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

    18 How 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.

  • 1 Sam 11:5
    74%

    5 And behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field, and Saul said, "What troubles the people, that they weep?" And they told him the news of the men of Jabesh.

  • Exod 17:8
    73%

    8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

  • 1 Sam 17:19
    73%

    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
    3 verses
    73%

    25 Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David; therefore, he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

    26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men, intending to capture them.

    27 But a messenger came to Saul, saying, Hurry, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.

  • 1 Sam 23:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 And it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars.

    8 And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    72%

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

  • 1 Sam 15:12
    72%

    12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a place for himself, and has gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

  • 1 Sam 24:3
    72%

    3 And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. And David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.

  • 1 Sam 14:36
    72%

    36 Saul said, "Let us go down after the Philistines by night and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man among them." They said, "Do whatever seems good to you." Then the priest said, "Let us draw near to God here."

  • 1 Sam 9:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 And they went up to the city: and when they came into the city, behold, Samuel came out towards them, to go up to the high place.

    15 Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,

  • 1 Sam 14:2
    71%

    2 Saul was staying in the outermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree in Migron, and the people with him were about six hundred men;

  • 1 Sam 23:15
    71%

    15 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life; and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a forest.

  • Gen 14:7
    71%

    7 And 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.

  • 1 Sam 23:10
    71%

    10 Then David said, O LORD God of Israel, your servant has certainly heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

  • Num 14:25
    71%

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

  • 1 Sam 15:34
    71%

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

  • 1 Sam 13:15
    70%

    15 Then Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men.

  • 1 Sam 30:1
    70%

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

  • 1 Sam 15:32
    70%

    32 Then 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.

  • 1 Sam 28:4
    70%

    4 The Philistines assembled and camped in Shunem, and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they camped in Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 9:10
    70%

    10 Then Saul said to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was.

  • Num 14:45
    70%

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

  • 2 Sam 1:1
    70%

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

  • 1 Sam 9:27
    70%

    27 And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand still a while, that I may show you the word of God.

  • 1 Chr 10:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7 And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they had fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

    8 And it came to pass on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.