2 Samuel 1:8

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Summary

2 Samuel 1:8

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

An amalekite

1 Samuel 30:1

General references

2 Samuel 1:13

Bible References

An amalekite

They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, "Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction."

Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"

David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those [nations] were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.

It happened, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,

General references

David said to the young man who told him, "Where are you from?" He answered, "I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite."