1 Samuel 15:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Saul came to the city of the Amalekites and lay in wait in the valley.

Cross References

Joshua 8:12

Taking about five thousand men, he set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

Joshua 8:4

with the command, “You shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it; do not go very far from the city, but all of you stay alert.

1 Samuel 15:4

So Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand soldiers of Judah.

1 Samuel 15:6

Saul said to the Kenites, “Go! Leave! Withdraw from among the Amalekites, or I will destroy you with them, for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites withdrew from the Amalekites.