Then they came again to En-mishpat (this is Kadesh), and they subdued all the territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who live in Hazazon-tamar.
2 Samuel 1:8 - Tree of Life Version Then he asked me, ‘Who are you?’ “So 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 came again to En-mishpat (this is Kadesh), and they subdued all the territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who live in Hazazon-tamar.
Then David said to the young man who informed him, “Where are you from?” “I am a son of an Amalekite outsider,” he replied.
When he turned around and saw me, he called me. So I answered, ‘Here I am.’
So he said to me, ‘Stand now over me and kill me! For I’m in agony, yet I’m still alive.’
Then he saw Amalek, so he uttered his oracle and said: “Amalek was the first of nations, but will come to ruin at last.”
Now go and strike down Amalek and put all he has under the ban of destruction—so have no pity on him; but kill both men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Gizrites and the Amalekites, for those were inhabitants of the region from ancient times, as you go all the way from Shur and as far as the land of Egypt.
Now it came to pass, when David and his men returned to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the Negev and on Ziklag, and had attacked Ziklag and burned it with fire;
Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you from?” “I am a young Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite,” he said. “My master abandoned me three days ago because I fell sick.
David attacked them from the twilight until the evening of the next day. None of them escaped, except 400 young men who rode on camels and fled.