Now it came to pass, many days after Jehovah had given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua had grown old and advanced in age.

Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.

And Jehovah said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens.

saying, Because Jehovah has sworn with His hand on the throne: Jehovah is at war with Amalek from generation to generation.

You shall go around the city, all the men of war; you shall go all around the city once. Thus you shall do six days.

Therefore the sons of Israel were not able to stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they are accursed. Neither will I be with you anymore, unless you destroy the accursed from among you.

So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.

And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the garment, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had, and they brought them to the valley of Achor.

And he dealt with might and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel from the hands of those who plundered them.

Samuel also said to Saul, Jehovah has sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel. Now therefore, heed the voice of the words of Jehovah.

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and lay in wait in the valley.

And Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah all the way to Shur, which is before Egypt.

But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.

I regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not carried out My words. And it angered Samuel, and he cried out to Jehovah all night.

And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, Blessed are you of Jehovah! I have carried out the Word of Jehovah.

And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice unto Jehovah your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

And Samuel said, When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not Jehovah anoint you king over Israel?

Why then have you not obeyed the voice of Jehovah? Why did you swoop down upon the spoils, and do evil in the eyes of Jehovah?

But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things, the devoted things, to sacrifice unto Jehovah your God in Gilgal.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the Word of Jehovah, He also has rejected you from being king.

Now therefore, please forgive my sin, and return with me, that I may bow down before Jehovah.

And as Samuel turned around to go away, Saul seized the edge of his robe, and it tore.

And also the Emminence of Israel will not deal falsely nor repent. For He is not a man, to repent.

So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul bowed down before Jehovah.

But Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. And Samuel hacked Agag in pieces before Jehovah at Gilgal.

And Samuel went no more to see Saul until the day of his death. Nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul, and Jehovah was sorry that He had made Saul king over Israel.

And David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. For those nations were the inhabitants of the land from antiquity, as you come to Shur, as far as the land of Egypt.

Now it happened, when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had raided the south and Ziklag, struck Ziklag and burned it with fire,

So David and his men came into the city, and behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive.

And David's two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the widowed wife of Nabal the Carmelite, had been taken captive.

And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, Please bring the ephod here to me. And Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

And they struck the remnant of the escaped Amalekites, and dwelt there to this day.

After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and set his seat above all the rulers who were with him.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.

Also Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vajezatha;

Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

Deal with them as with Midian, as with Sisera, as with Jabin at the Brook Kishon,

Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb, yea, all their anointed like Zebah and Zalmunna,

O my God, make them like the whirling dust, like the chaff before the wind!

so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.

Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever; yea, let them be abashed and perish,