1 Samuel 15:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Saul came to the city of the Amalekites and lay in wait in the valley.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Then Saul advanced on the Amalekite city and laid an ambush in the valley.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And when Saul had arrived as far as the city of Amalek, he placed ambushes at the torrent.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And when Saul was come to the city of Amalec, he laid ambushes in the torrent.

1 Samuel 15:5 Cross References

Joshua 8:12

Taking about five thousand men, he set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

Joshua 8:4

with the command, “You shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it; do not go very far from the city, but all of you stay alert.

1 Samuel 15:4

So Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand soldiers of Judah.

1 Samuel 15:6

Saul said to the Kenites, “Go! Leave! Withdraw from among the Amalekites, or I will destroy you with them, for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites withdrew from the Amalekites.