1Sa 15:3-7 | TSK | e4.org | Now go The Amalekites, a people of Arabia Petrea, who inhabited a tract of country on the frontiers of Egypt and Canaan, had acted with great cruelty towards the Israelites on their coming out of Egypt, and God then purposed that Amalek, as a nation, should be blotted out from under heaven; but it had been spared till it had filled up the measure of its iniquities, and now this purpose is carried into effect by Saul, upwards of 400 years afterwards! Nothing could justify such an exterminating decree but the absolute authority of God; and this was given. All the reasons of it we do not know; but this we know well, the Judge of all the earth doeth right. utterly destroy ; ; , ; slay ; ; ox and sheep ;

‏ 1 Samuel 15:3-7

Now go The Amalekites, a people of Arabia Petrea, who inhabited a tract of country on the frontiers of Egypt and Canaan, had acted with great cruelty towards the Israelites on their coming out of Egypt, and God then purposed that Amalek, as a nation, should be blotted out from under heaven; but it had been spared till it had filled up the measure of its iniquities, and now this purpose is carried into effect by Saul, upwards of 400 years afterwards! Nothing could justify such an exterminating decree but the absolute authority of God; and this was given. All the reasons of it we do not know; but this we know well, the Judge of all the earth doeth right.

utterly destroy Lev 27:28-29; Num 24:20; Deut 13:15-16, Deut 20:16-18; Josh 6:17-21

slay Exod 20:5; Num 31:17; Isa 14:21-22

ox and sheep Gen 3:17-18; Rom 8:20-22

Telaim Josh 15:24, Telem

two 1Sam 11:8, 1Sam 13:15

laid wait or, fought, 1Sam 15:5

the Kenites 1Sam 27:10; Num 24:21-22; Judg 1:16, Judg 4:11, Judg 5:24; 1Chr 2:55

depart Gen 18:25, Gen 19:12-16; Num 16:26-27, Num 16:34; Prov 9:6; Acts 2:40; 2Cor 6:17; Rev 18:14

ye showed Exod 18:9-10, Exod 18:19; Num 10:29-32; 2Tim 1:16

smote 1Sam 14:48; Job 21:30; Eccl 8:13

Havilah This Havilah was probably situated in Arabia, and the district of Chaulon may mark the spot. It seems different from that encompassed by the river Pison, one of the rivers of Eden. Gen 2:11, Gen 25:18

Shur 1Sam 27:8; Gen 16:7