📖WEB · 1 Samuel 15:1
What does 1 Samuel 15:1 mean?
"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 15:1 (World English Bible)
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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.
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.
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.’”
Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
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