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1 Samuel 15:7

SaulEgyptHavilah (of Arabia)Shur

5 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.

And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.

8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

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BSB
Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.
KJV
And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
WEB
Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, which is before Egypt.
ASV
And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou goest to Shur, that is before Egypt.
DARBY
And Saul smote Amalek from Havilah as thou comest to Shur, which is opposite to Egypt.
BLB
and Saul struck the Amalekite from Havilah all the way to Shur, which [is] on the face of Egypt.
ÅB
Saul slo amalekittene og forfulgte dem fra Havila til bortimot Sur, som ligger østenfor Egypt.
OTB
Da slo Saul amalekittene fra Havila så langt du går til Shur, som ligger øst for Egypt.
B1930
Saul slo amalekittene og forfulgte dem fra Havila til bortimot Sur, som ligger østenfor Egypten.

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  • Genesis 25:18

    And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.

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  • Genesis 16:7

    And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

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  • 1 Samuel 14:48

    And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.

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  • 1 Samuel 27:8

    And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.

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  • Genesis 2:11

    The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

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  • Exodus 15:22

    So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

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  • Ecclesiastes 8:13

    But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

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  • Job 21:30

    That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

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