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2 Samuel 1:8

6 “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and the cavalry closing in on him.

7 When he turned around and saw me, he called out and I answered, ‘Here I am!’

‘Who are you?’ he asked. So I told him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’

9 Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for agony has seized me, but my life still lingers.’

10 So I stood over him and killed him, because I knew that after he had fallen he could not survive. And I took the crown that was on his head and the band that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.”

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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.

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BSB
‘Who are you?’ he asked. So I told him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
KJV
And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
WEB
He said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
ASV
And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
DARBY
And he said to me, Who art thou? And I said to him, I am an Amalekite.
BLB
And he said to me, ‘Who [are] you?’ And I said to him, ‘I [am] an Amalekite.’
ÅB
Så spurte han: Hvem er du? Jeg svarte: Jeg er en amalekitt.
OTB
Han spurte: ‘Hvem er du?’ Jeg svarte: ‘Jeg er en amalekitt.’
B1930
Så spurte han: Hvem er du? Jeg svarte: Jeg er en amalekitt.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Samuel 30:13

    Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” “I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I fell ill.

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  • 1 Samuel 30:17

    And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.

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  • 1 Samuel 30:1

    On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.

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  • 1 Samuel 15:3

    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.’”

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  • 1 Samuel 27:8

    Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

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  • Numbers 24:20

    Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”

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  • Genesis 14:7

    Then they turned back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.

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  • Exodus 17:8–16

    After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.

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