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1 Samuel 15:8

Verse 8 of 35. The 15th of 31 chapters in 1 Samuel, in History.

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

5Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.

6Saul 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.

7Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, which is before Egypt.

8He 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, of the cattle, of the fat calves, of 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 the LORD’s word came to Samuel, saying,

11“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to the LORD all night.

12Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, turned, passed on, and went down to Gilgal.”

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.