2 Samuel 1:8

New American Bible - revised edition

he asked me, ‘Who are you?’ and I replied, ‘An Amalekite.’

Cross References

Genesis 14:7

They then turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they subdued the whole country of both the Amalekites and the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.

2 Samuel 1:13

David said to the youth who had reported to him, “Where are you from?” He replied, “I am the son of a resident alien, an Amalekite.”

2 Samuel 1:7

He turned around and saw me, and called me to him. When I said, ‘Here I am,’

2 Samuel 1:9

Then he said to me, ‘Stand over me, please, and put me to death, for I am in great suffering, but still alive.’

Numbers 24:20

Upon seeing Amalek, Balaam recited his poem: First of the nations is Amalek, but their end is to perish forever.

1 Samuel 15:3

Go, now, attack Amalek, and put under the ban everything he has. Do not spare him; kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.”

1 Samuel 27:8

David and his men went out on raids against the Geshurites, Girzites, and Amalekites—peoples living in the land between Telam, on the approach to Shur, and the land of Egypt.

1 Samuel 30:1

Before David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had raided the Negeb and Ziklag. They stormed Ziklag, and set it on fire.

1 Samuel 30:13

Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where did you come from?” “I am an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite,” he replied. “My master abandoned me three days ago because I fell sick.

1 Samuel 30:17

From dawn to sundown the next day David attacked them, allowing no one to escape except four hundred young men, who mounted their camels and fled.