KJV King James Version
Now 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.
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1 Samuel 15:3
Now 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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
WEB World English Bible
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.’”
ASV American Standard Version
Now 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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Now, go, and thou hast smitten Amalek, and devoted all that it hath, and thou hast no pity on it, and hast put to death from man unto woman, from infant unto suckling, from ox unto sheep, from camel unto ass.’
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 15
1 Samuel 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.
2 Thus 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.
3 Now 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.
4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
6 And 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.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
עַתָּה֩H6258 · at.tahnowלֵ֨ךְH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentוְהִכִּֽיתָ֜הH5221 · na.khahto smiteאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]עֲמָלֵ֗קH6002 · a.ma.leqAmalekוְהַֽחֲרַמְתֶּם֙H2763 · cha.ramto devote/destroyאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]כָּל־H3605 · kolallאֲשֶׁר־H834 · a.sherwhichל֔וֹH9033 · ohimוְלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotתַחְמֹ֖לH2550 · cha.malto spareעָלָ֑יוH5921 · aluponוְהֵמַתָּ֞הH4191 · mutto dieמֵאִ֣ישׁH376 · ishmanעַד־H5704 · adtillאִשָּׁ֗הH802 · ish.shahwomanמֵֽעֹלֵל֙H5768 · o.lelinfantוְעַד־H5704 · adtillיוֹנֵ֔קH3243 · ya.naqto suckleמִשּׁ֣וֹרH7794 · shorcattleוְעַד־H5704 · adtillשֶׂ֔הH7716 · sehsheepמִגָּמָ֖לH1581 · ga.malcamelוְעַד־H5704 · adtillחֲמֽוֹר׃ סH2543 · cha.mordonkey
Cross-references
Numbers 24:20And 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.Deuteronomy 20:16-18But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee [for] an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:Isaiah 14:21-22Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.Numbers 31:17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.1 Samuel 22:19And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.Joshua 6:17-21And the city shall be accursed, [even] it, and all that [are] therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that [are] with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.Leviticus 27:28-29Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, [both] of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing [is] most holy unto the LORD.Deuteronomy 13:15-16Thou shalt surely smite 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.Romans 8:20-22For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope,Genesis 3:17-18And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;
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