1 Sam 15:3

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Now go.

The Amalekites, a people of Arabia Petr�, 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; Lev 27:29; Num 24:20; Deut 13:15; Deut 13:16; Deut 20:16-18; Josh 6:17-21

slay.

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

ox and sheep.

Gen 3:17; Gen 3:18; Rom 8:20-22