1 Samuel 15:1-9 - Israel Defeats The Amalekites

¹ Samuel told Saul: Jehovah sent me to anoint you king of his people Israel. Now listen to Jehovah's words: ² The Israelites were on their way out of Egypt when the nation of Amalek attacked them. I am Jehovah All-Powerful. I am going to make Amalek pay for what he did to Israel! ³ Go and attack the Amalekites! Destroy them and all their possessions. Do not have any pity. Kill their men, women, children, and even their babies. Slaughter their cattle, sheep, camels, and donkeys.'

⁴ Saul called his forces together and inspected them at Telem. There were two hundred thousand soldiers from Israel and ten thousand from Judah. ⁵ Then he and his men went to the city of Amalek. They waited in ambush in a dry riverbed. ⁶ He sent a warning to the Kenites, a people whose ancestors had been kind to the Israelites when they came from Egypt: Go away and leave the Amalekites. That way I will not kill you along with them. So the Kenites left.

⁷ Saul defeated the Amalekites. He fought all the way from Havilah to Shur, east of Egypt. ⁸ He captured King Agag of Amalek alive and with the sword he killed all the people. ⁹ Saul and his men spared Agag's life and did not kill the best sheep and cattle, the best calves and lambs, or anything else that was good. They destroyed only what was useless or worthless.