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2 Samuel 1:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

He asked me, “Who are you? ” I told him: I’m an Amalekite.

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David slaughtered them from twilight until the evening of the next day.  None of them escaped, except four hundred young men who got on camels and fled.


Then David said to him, ‘Who do you belong to? Where are you from? ’ ‘I’m an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite man,’ he said. ‘My master abandoned me when I got ill three days ago.


David and his men  arrived in Ziklag  on the third day. The Amalekites  had raided the Negev and attacked and burned Ziklag.


Now go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have.  Do not spare them. Kill men and women, infants and nursing babies, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.” ’


David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites,  the Girzites,  and the Amalekites.  From ancient times they had been the inhabitants of the region as you go towards Shur  , as far as the land of Egypt.


Then Balaam saw Amalek and proclaimed his poem: Amalek was first among the nations, but his future is destruction.


Then they came back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh  ), and they defeated the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.


When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me, so I answered: I’m at your service.


Then he begged me, “Stand over me and kill me, for I’m mortally wounded,  but my life still lingers.”


David enquired of the young man who had brought him the report, ‘Where are you from? ’ ‘I’m the son of a resident foreigner,’ he said. ‘I’m an Amalekite.’





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