5Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.


In Context

2 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'I have marked that which Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

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.'|

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

5 Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

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.

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

1 Samuel 15:5 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:5Saul went to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the ravine.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:5And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:5And when Saul was come to the city of Amalec, he laid ambushes in the torrent.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:5And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:5And Saul came to the city of the Amalekites, and set an ambush in the valley.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:5And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:5And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:5And Saul cometh in unto a city of Amalek, and layeth wait in a valley;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:5And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.