He said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
Parallel translations
- KJV And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
- BSB ‘Who are you?’ he asked. So I told him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
- NKJV And he said to me, ‘Who are you?’ So I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
- NASB Then he said to me, ‘Who are you?’ And I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
- NLT “He responded, ‘Who are you?’ “‘I am an Amalekite,’ I told him.
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- 1 Sam 30:17David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.
- 1 Sam 30:13David asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I got sick.
- 1 Sam 15:3Now 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.’”
- 1 Sam 30:1When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,
- Num 24:20He 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.”
- Gen 14:7They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.
- 1 Sam 27:8David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, on the way to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.
- Deut 25:17–19Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt;
- Exod 17:8–16Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
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