AMALEKITES

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• Genesis 14:7

  They 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.

• Exodus 17:8

  Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

• Exodus 17:13

  Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

• Exodus 17:14

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”

• Exodus 17:16

  He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”

• Numbers 13:29

  Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”

• Numbers 14:25

  Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

• Numbers 14:45

  Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.

• Numbers 24:20

  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.”

• Deuteronomy 25:17

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

• Deuteronomy 25:18

  how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.

• Deuteronomy 25:19

  Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.

• Judges 3:13

  He gathered the children of Ammon and Amalek to himself; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.

• 1 Samuel 14:47

  Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned himself, he defeated them.

• 1 Samuel 14:48

  He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.

• 1 Samuel 15:1

  Samuel said to Saul, “Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of Yahweh’s words.

• 1 Samuel 15:2

  Yahweh of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

• 1 Samuel 15:3

  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.’”

• 1 Samuel 15:4

  Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

• 1 Samuel 15:5

  Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.

• 1 Samuel 15:6

  Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

• 1 Samuel 15:7

  Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.

• 1 Samuel 15:8

  He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

• 1 Samuel 15:9

  But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, and of the fat calves, and the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

• 1 Samuel 15:10

  Then Yahweh’s word came to Samuel, saying,

• 1 Samuel 15:11

  “It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

• 1 Samuel 15:12

  Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.”

• 1 Samuel 15:13

  Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”

• 1 Samuel 15:14

  Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”

• 1 Samuel 15:15

  Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”

• 1 Samuel 15:16

  Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.” He said to him, “Say on.”

• 1 Samuel 15:17

  Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

• 1 Samuel 15:18

  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.’

• 1 Samuel 15:19

  Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?”

• 1 Samuel 15:20

  Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed Yahweh’s voice, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

• 1 Samuel 15:21

  But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.”

• 1 Samuel 15:22

  Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

• 1 Samuel 15:23

  For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

• 1 Samuel 15:24

  Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

• 1 Samuel 15:25

  Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh.”

• 1 Samuel 15:26

  Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 15:27

  As Samuel turned around to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

• 1 Samuel 15:28

  Samuel said to him, “Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

• 1 Samuel 15:29

  Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”

• 1 Samuel 15:30

  Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”

• 1 Samuel 15:31

  So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 15:32

  Then Samuel said, “Bring Agag the king of the Amalekites here to me!” Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”

• 1 Samuel 15:33

  Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!” Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.

• 1 Samuel 27:8

  David 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.

• 1 Samuel 27:9

  David struck the land, and saved no man or woman alive, and took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned, and came to Achish.

• 1 Samuel 28:18

  Because you didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice, and didn’t execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you today.

• 1 Samuel 30:1

  When 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,

• 1 Samuel 30:2

  and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.

• 1 Samuel 30:3

  When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.

• 1 Samuel 30:4

  Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.

• 1 Samuel 30:5

  David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

• 1 Samuel 30:6

  David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

• 1 Samuel 30:7

  David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Please bring the ephod here to me.” Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

• 1 Samuel 30:8

  David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue; for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”

• 1 Samuel 30:9

  So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.

• 1 Samuel 30:10

  But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn’t go over the brook Besor.

• 1 Samuel 30:11

  They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.

• 1 Samuel 30:12

  They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, and drank no water for three days and three nights.

• 1 Samuel 30:13

  David 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 Samuel 30:14

  We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.”

• 1 Samuel 30:15

  David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this troop?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.”

• 1 Samuel 30:16

  When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

• 1 Samuel 30:17

  David 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 Samuel 30:18

  David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.

• 1 Samuel 30:19

  There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither plunder, nor anything that they had taken to them. David brought back all.

• 1 Samuel 30:20

  David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s plunder.”

• 1 Chronicles 4:42

  Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

• 1 Chronicles 4:43

  They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.