1 Samuel 15:3 meaning and explanation
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.’”
1 Samuel 15:3, Berean Standard Bible
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Samuel relays the LORD's command to Saul. The Amalekites had attacked Israel's stragglers on the way from Egypt (Deuteronomy 25:17-19), and here God orders their total destruction, the herem or ban, devoting everything to Him.
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