3. Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
4. Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
5. Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.
6. Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
7. Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.
8. He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.