then they turned back and came to En-mishpat, that is, Kadesh, and subdued all the country of the Amalekites and also the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.
2 Samuel 1:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 And he said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’ More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He asked me, Who are you? I answered, An Amalekite. American Standard Version (1901) And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite. Common English Bible ‘Who are you?’ he asked, and I told him, ‘I’m an Amalekite.’ Catholic Public Domain Version he said to me, "Who are you?" And I said to him, "I am an Amalekite." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he said to me: Who art thou? And I said to him: I am an Amalecite. |
then they turned back and came to En-mishpat, that is, Kadesh, and subdued all the country of the Amalekites and also the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.
David said to the young man who had reported to him, “Where do you come from?” He answered, “I am the son of a resident alien, an Amalekite.”
When he looked behind him, he saw me and called to me. I answered, ‘Here, sir.’
He said to me, ‘Come, stand over me and kill me, for convulsions have seized me, and yet my life still lingers.’
Then he looked on Amalek and uttered his oracle, saying, “First among the nations was Amalek, but its end is to perish forever.”
Now go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”
Now David and his men went up and made raids on the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for these were the landed settlements from Telam on the way to Shur and on to the land of Egypt.
Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the Negeb and on Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag, burned it down,
Then David said to him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite. My master left me behind because I fell sick three days ago.
David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not one of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled.