And when he looked on Am´alek, he took up his parable, and said, Am´alek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
After these things did king Ahasue´rus promote Haman the son of Hammeda´tha the A´gagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Am´alek from under heaven.
He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amal´ekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.