1 Samuel 15:18

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 13:13 : 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
  • Gen 15:16 : 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
  • Num 16:38 : 38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
  • Job 31:3 : 3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
  • Prov 10:29 : 29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
  • Prov 13:21 : 21 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.

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  • 1 Sam 15:1-3
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    85%

    1Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.

    2Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

    3Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

  • 1 Sam 15:19-21
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    19Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?

    20And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

    21But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.

  • 1 Sam 15:5-10
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    5And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

    6And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

    7And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.

    8And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

    9But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

    10Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,

  • 1 Sam 28:17-18
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    82%

    17And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even to David:

    18Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.

  • 1 Sam 15:14-17
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    14And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

    15And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

    16Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.

    17And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?

  • 1 Sam 14:48
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    48And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.

  • Deut 25:17-19
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    17Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;

    18How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

    19Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

  • Num 14:43
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    43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.

  • Exod 17:8
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    8Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

  • Exod 17:16
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    16For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

  • Exod 17:13-14
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    13And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

    14And 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 Amalek from under heaven.

  • Gen 14:7
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    7And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.

  • Deut 13:15
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    15Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

  • 1 Sam 15:32-33
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    32Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

    33And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

  • Num 14:45
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    45Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.

  • Deut 20:17
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    17But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:

  • Num 24:20
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    20And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.

  • Deut 2:15
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    15For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

  • 1 Chr 4:43
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    43And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.

  • Deut 31:4-5
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    72%

    4And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.

    5And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.

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    2And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.

  • 2 Sam 1:13-15
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    13And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.

    14And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?

    15And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.

  • Deut 6:19
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    19To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.

  • 2 Kgs 18:25
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    25Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

  • 1 Sam 22:16
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    16And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.

  • Jer 15:1
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    1Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

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    8And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.

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    13And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: