and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’
Parallel translations
- KJV 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.
- BSB and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’
- NKJV Now the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’
- NASB And the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go and completely destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are eliminated.’
- NLT And the Lord sent you on a mission and told you, ‘Go and completely destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, until they are all dead.’
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Cross-references · 6
- Job 31:3Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
- Prov 10:29The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
- Gen 13:13Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
- Num 16:38even the censers of these sinners against their own lives. Let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”
- Gen 15:16In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
- Prov 13:21Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.
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