1 Samuel 15:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’”
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“and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.”
King James Version · Public Domain“and Jehovah sent thee on a journey, and said, Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and Jehovah sendeth thee in the way, and saith, Go, and thou hast devoted the sinners, the Amalekite, and fought against them till they are consumed;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Samuel 15:18 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 13:13But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.
- Genesis 15:16In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
- Numbers 16:38As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”
- Job 31:3Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
- Proverbs 10:29The way of the LORD is a refuge to the upright, but destruction awaits those who do evil.
- Proverbs 13:21Disaster pursues sinners, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.
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