1 Samuel 15:18 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁸ “And יהוה sent you on the way, and said, ‘Go, and you shall put under the ban the sinners, the Amalĕqites, and fight against them until they are 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.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And the Lord sent thee on the way, and said: Go, and kill the sinners of Amalec; and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast utterly destroyed them.

1 Samuel 15:18 Cross References

Genesis 13:13

But the men of Seḏom were evil and sinned before יהוה, exceedingly so.

Genesis 14:7

And they turned back and came to Ěn Mishpat, that is Qaḏĕsh, and struck all the country of the Amalĕqites, and also the Amorites who dwelt in Ḥatsetson Tamar.

Genesis 15:16

“Then, in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the crookedness of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

Job 31:3

Is it not calamity to the perverse, and strangeness to the workers of wickedness?

Proverbs 10:29

The way of יהוה is a stronghold for the perfect, But ruin to the workers of wickedness.

Proverbs 13:21

Evil pursues sinners, But good is repaid to the righteous.

Numbers 16:38

“The fire holders of these men who sinned against their own lives, let them be made into beaten plates as a covering for the slaughter-place. Because they brought them before יהוה, therefore they are set-apart. And let them become a sign to the children of Yisra’ĕl.”

Galatians 2:15

“We, Yehuḏim by nature, and not of the nations, sinners,

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go, and you shall strike Amalĕq and put under the ban all that he has, and you shall not spare them, and put to death from man to woman, from infant to nursing child, from ox to sheep, from camel to donkey.’ ”