1 Samuel 15:18 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁸ And the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amal´ekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, Go, utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites; and fight against them until they are consumed.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ and Jehovah sent thee on a journey, and said, Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ The LORD sent you on a mission, instructing you, ‘Go, and put the sinful Amalekites under the ban. Fight against them until you’ve wiped them out.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And the Lord sent you on the way, and he said: 'Go and put to death the sinners of Amalek. And you shall fight against them, even unto utter annihilation.'

1 Samuel 15:18 Cross References

Proverbs 10:29

The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

Job 31:3

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

Numbers 16:38

The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the Lord, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

Genesis 15:16

But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

Genesis 13:13

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.

Proverbs 13:21

Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repaid.

Galatians 2:15

We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

Genesis 14:7

And they returned, and came to En–mish´pat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amal´ekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Haz´azon–ta´mar.

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and smite Am´alek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.