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1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

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ASV

Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

KJV

Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

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Original language & word study

26 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
עַתָּה֩'a.TahnowH6258 →
לֵ֨ךְlekhgoH1980 →
וְהִכִּֽיתָ֜הve.hi.ki.Tahand you will attackH5221 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
עֲמָלֵ֗ק'a.ma.LekAmalekH6002 →
וְהַֽחֲרַמְתֶּם֙ve.ha.cha.ram.Temand you will totally destroyH2763 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-thatH834 →
ל֔וֹlo[belongs] to <the> it
וְלֹ֥אve.Lo'and notH3808 →
תַחְמֹ֖לtach.Molyou must have compassionH2550 →
עָלָ֑יו'a.Lavon itH5921 →
וְהֵמַתָּ֞הve.he.ma.Tahand you will put to deathH4191 →
מֵאִ֣ישׁme.'Ishfrom a manH376 →
עַד־'ad-untoH5704 →
אִשָּׁ֗ה'i.Shaha womanH802 →
מֵֽעֹלֵל֙me.'o.Lelfrom a childH5768 →
וְעַד־ve.'ad-and untoH5704 →
יוֹנֵ֔קyo.Neka suckling-childH3243 →
מִשּׁ֣וֹרmi.Shorfrom an oxH7794 →
וְעַד־ve.'ad-and untoH5704 →
שֶׂ֔הSeha sheepH7716 →
מִגָּמָ֖לmi.ga.Malfrom a camelH1581 →
וְעַד־ve.'ad-and untoH5704 →
חֲמֽוֹר׃ סcha.Mora donkeyH2543 →

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Jeremiah 48:10Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.Deuteronomy 20:16–18However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.Numbers 24:20Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”1 Samuel 27:9Whenever David attacked a territory, he did not leave a man or woman alive, but he took the flocks and herds, the donkeys, camels, and clothing. Then he would return to Achish,Deuteronomy 2:34At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.Numbers 31:17So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,Isaiah 14:21–22Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.1 Samuel 22:19He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.Numbers 31:15“Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.1 Samuel 15:11“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all that night.Jeremiah 51:22With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.Leviticus 27:28–29Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.Joshua 6:17–21Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.2 Samuel 1:8‘Who are you?’ he asked. So I told him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’Revelation 16:1Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s wrath.”1 Samuel 15:9Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to destroy them, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.Esther 3:13And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.Jeremiah 44:7So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?

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