1 Samuel 15:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now 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.

Utterly destroy

Joshua 6:17

Slay

Exodus 20:5

Numbers 31:17

Isaiah 14:21

Ox and sheep

Genesis 3:17

Romans 8:20

General references

Numbers 31:15

Psalm 149:7

Jeremiah 51:22

Bible References

Utterly destroy

“Nothing that a man permanently sets apart to the Lord from all he owns, whether a person, an animal, or his inherited landholding, can be sold or redeemed; everything set apart is especially holy to the Lord.

Then Balaam saw Amalek and proclaimed his poem:

Amalek was first among the nations,
but his future is destruction.

you must strike down the inhabitants of that city with the sword. Completely destroy everyone in it as well as its livestock with the sword.

However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

But the city and everything in it are set apart to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and everyone with her in the house will live, because she hid the men we sent.

Slay

You must not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers’ sin, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

So now, kill all the male children and kill every woman who has had sexual relations with a man,

Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons,
because of the iniquity of their fathers.
They will never rise up to possess a land
or fill the surface of the earth with cities.

Ox and sheep

And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.

For the creation was subjected to futility—not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it—in the hope

General references

“Have you let every female live?” he asked them.

inflicting vengeance on the nations
and punishment on the peoples,

With you I will smash man and woman;
with you I will smash the old man and the youth;
with you I will smash the young man and the young woman.