1 Samuel 15:18 · KJV
“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. {they...: Heb. they consume them}”
— 1 Samuel 15:18
And Samuel said, When thou {wast} little in thine own sight, {wast} thou not {made} the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?
Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
1 Samuel 15 — Context
Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
17And Samuel said, When thou {wast} little in thine own sight, {wast} thou not {made} the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?
18And 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. {they...: Heb. they consume them}
19Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
20And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
Cross References
Numbers 16:38
The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates {for} a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
Job 31:3
{Is} not destruction to the wicked? and a strange {punishment} to the workers of iniquity?
Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom {were} wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Proverbs 10:29
The way of the LORD {is} strength to the upright: but destruction {shall be} to the workers of iniquity.
Genesis 15:16
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites {is} not yet full.
Proverbs 13:21
Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.