1 Samuel 15:18

New English Translation

The Lord sent you on a campaign saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you have destroyed them.’

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

(Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the Lord.)

Genesis 14:7

Then they attacked En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh) again, and they conquered all the territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazazon Tamar.

Genesis 15:16

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.”

Job 31:3

Is it not misfortune for the unjust, and disaster for those who work iniquity?

Proverbs 10:29

The way of the Lord is like a stronghold for the upright, but it is destruction to evildoers.

Proverbs 13:21

Calamity pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

Numbers 16:38

As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, they must be made into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.”

Galatians 2:15

We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,

1 Samuel 15:3

So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”