1 Samuel 15:5

Good News Translation

Then he and his men went to the city of Amalek and waited in ambush in a dry riverbed.

Cross References

Joshua 8:12

He took about five thousand men and put them in hiding west of the city, between Ai and Bethel.

Joshua 8:4

with these orders: “Hide on the other side of the city, but not too far away from it; be ready to attack.

1 Samuel 15:4

Saul called his forces together and inspected them at Telem: there were 200,000 soldiers from Israel and 10,000 from Judah.

1 Samuel 15:6

He sent a warning to the Kenites, a people whose ancestors had been kind to the Israelites when they came from Egypt: “Go away and leave the Amalekites, so that I won't kill you along with them.” So the Kenites left.