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

⁵ Saul came to the city of the Amalekites and lay in wait in the valley.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And Saul came to the city of Amalek and laid wait in the valley.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

Common English Bible

⁵ Then Saul advanced on the Amalekite city and laid an ambush in the valley.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ 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

⁵ 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.