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1 Samuel 15:18

1 Samuel 15:18 is verse 18 of 1 Samuel chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’

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King James Version

And 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.

World English Bible

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.’

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1 Samuel 15:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible

16 “Stop!” exclaimed Samuel. “Let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night.” “Tell me,” Saul replied.

17 And Samuel said, “Although you were once small in your own eyes, have you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel

18 and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’

19 So why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you rush upon the plunder and do evil in the sight of the LORD?”

20 “But I did obey the LORD,” Saul replied. “I went on the mission that the LORD gave me. I brought back Agag king of Amalek and devoted the Amalekites to destruction.

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Hebrew words

וַיִּשְׁלָחֲךָ֥and he sent you יְהוָ֖הYahweh בְּדָ֑רֶךְon a journey וַיֹּ֗אמֶרand he said לֵ֣ךְgo וְהַחֲרַמְתָּ֞הand you will totally destroy אֶת<obj.>הַֽחַטָּאִים֙the sinners אֶת<obj.>עֲמָלֵ֔קAmalek וְנִלְחַמְתָּ֣and you will wage war ב֔וֹagainst <the> it עַ֥דuntil כַּלּוֹתָ֖םdestroy they אֹתָֽם<obj.> them

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 15:16
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

Numbers 16:38
As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”

Job 31:3
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

Proverbs 10:29
The way of the LORD is a refuge to the upright, but destruction awaits those who do evil.

Proverbs 13:21
Disaster pursues sinners, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.

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