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Saul strikes the Amalekites, and Saul and the people spare Agag and the best

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1 Samuel 15:4–9: Saul summons the people, and counts them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah. Saul comes to the city of Amalek, and sets an ambush in the valley. Saul says 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 depart from among the Amalekites. Saul strikes the Amalekites, “from Havilah as you go to Shur, which is before Egypt.” He takes Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroys all the people with the edge of the sword. But Saul and the people spare Agag and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, of the fat calves, of the lambs, and all that was good, and are not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroy utterly.

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1SA 15:4–9, engwebp
⁴Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah.
⁵Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.
⁶Saul 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.
⁷Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, which is before Egypt.
⁸He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
⁹But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, of the fat calves, of 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.
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Saul (son of Kish) — Took part in — Saul strikes the Amalekites, and Saul and the people spare Agag and the best

Evidence: 1 Samuel 15:4–9
Agag — Took part in — Saul strikes the Amalekites, and Saul and the people spare Agag and the best

Evidence: 1 Samuel 15:4–9
Saul strikes the Amalekites, and Saul and the people spare Agag and the best — Narrated location — Telaim

Evidence: 1 Samuel 15:4–9

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Entry: Saul strikes the Amalekites, and Saul and the people spare Agag and the best (event-1sa-15-saul-strikes-amalek-and-spares-agag)
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Current wording: 1 Samuel 15:4–9: Saul summons the people, and counts them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah. Saul comes to the city of Amalek, and sets an ambush in the valley. Saul says 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 depart from among the Amalekites. Saul strikes the Amalekites, “from Havilah as you go to Shur, which is before Egypt.” He takes Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroys all the people with the edge of the sword. But Saul and the people spare Agag and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, of the fat calves, of the lambs, and all that was good, and are not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroy utterly.
Cited evidence: 1SA 15:4–9, engwebp
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