1 Samuel 15:7

World English Bible (2000)

Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.

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  • 1 Sam 14:48 : 48 He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.
  • Gen 16:7 : 7 The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
  • Gen 25:18 : 18 They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.
  • 1 Sam 27:8 : 8 David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those [nations] were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.
  • Exod 15:22 : 22 Moses led Israel onward 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 Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
  • Job 21:30 : 30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 15:8-10
    3 verses
    82%

    8 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 cattle, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

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

  • 1 Sam 15:1-6
    6 verses
    82%

    1 Samuel said to Saul, "Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the words of Yahweh.

    2 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'I have marked that which Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

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

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

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

    6 Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart, go 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.

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

    18 and Yahweh 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 didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but took the spoils, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?"

    20 Saul said to Samuel, "But I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

    21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal."

  • 1 Sam 14:46-48
    3 verses
    80%

    46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.

    47 Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he 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 wherever he turned himself, he put [them] to the worse.

    48 He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.

  • 1 Sam 15:15
    80%

    15 Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest."

  • Gen 14:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

    7 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

  • Deut 25:17-19
    3 verses
    77%

    17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;

    18 how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn't fear God.

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

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

    8 David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those [nations] were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.

    9 David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the cattle, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Achish.

    10 Achish said, "Against whom have you made a raid today?" David said, "Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites."

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    75%

    43 They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.

  • Num 14:45
    75%

    45 Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.

  • Exod 17:8
    74%

    8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

  • Exod 17:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

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

    14 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky."

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

    32 Then Samuel said, "Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites!" Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past."

    33 Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!" Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.

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

  • 1 Sam 28:18
    73%

    18 Because you didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, and didn't execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you this day.

  • Num 24:20
    72%

    20 He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, "Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction."

  • Num 14:43
    72%

    43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you."

  • Exod 17:16
    71%

    16 He said, "Yah has sworn: 'Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.'"

  • Num 14:25
    70%

    25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."

  • Judg 6:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

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

    4 and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.

  • 1 Sam 30:1
    70%

    1 It happened, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,

  • 2 Sam 1:13
    69%

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

  • 1 Sam 14:36
    68%

    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 of them." They said, "Do whatever seems good to you." Then the priest said, "Let us draw near here to God."

  • Josh 13:4
    68%

    4 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;

  • 1 Sam 30:14
    68%

    14 We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire."

  • 2 Sam 1:1
    68%

    1 It happened after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag;

  • Num 13:29
    68%

    29 Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan."

  • 1 Sam 26:3
    68%

    3 Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.