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1 Samuel 30:1

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When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,

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Contradictions (1)

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  • Did Saul and Samuel kill all the Amalekites?

    1 Samuel 15:7-8 says Saul utterly destroyed all the Amalekites with the edge of the sword. The same chapter lets Agag's mother survive (15:33), David is still slaughtering Amalekites years later in 1 Samuel 27:8 and 30:1-17 (with 400 escaping), and an Amalekite kills Saul in 2 Samuel 1:8-10.

    Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.

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