1 Samuel 15:5
3 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.
4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
6 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley.
- KJV
- And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
- WEB
- Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.
- ASV
- And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
- DARBY
- And Saul came to the city of the Amalekites, and set an ambush in the valley.
- BLB
- And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and he lay in wait in the valley.
- ÅB
- Da Saul kom til amalekittenes by, la han et bakhold i dalen.
- OTB
- Saul kom til Amaleks by og la seg i bakhold i dalen.
- B1930
- Da Saul kom til amalekittenes by, la han et bakhold i dalen.