and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’
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and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’
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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.
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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.
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Passages linked to 1 Samuel 15:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 13:13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
- Genesis 15:16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
- Numbers 16:38 even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”
- Job 31:3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
- Proverbs 10:29 The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
- Proverbs 13:21 Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 15:18 And the LORD sent thee on a…
1Sa 15:18 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.
Ver. 18. Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites.] Those sinners with an accent, those wicked with a witness; qui noluerant solita peccare, - as Seneca said of some in his time, - who strove to out sin others.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The sinners; so called by way of eminency, as…
The sinners; so called by way of eminency, as that word is used, Gen 13:13; Mat 9:10; Joh 9:24,31.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the Lord sent thee on a journey,.... And…
And the Lord sent thee on a journey,.... And therefore he ought to have attended to the errand sent upon, and executed the orders given; in vain, therefore, was it to lay the blame on the people:
and said, go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites; those notorious sinners, who deserve no mercy at the hands of God or men; who had so highly offended the Lord, and had been so injurious to his people at their first coming out of Egypt. The orders were plain, not to be mistaken, and full and strong for the utter destruction of them without any exception, and therefore nothing could be pleaded in excuse for the violation of them:
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and fight against them until they be consumed; entirely; they were not to be left until an end was made of them; or "until they had consumed them" (d), the people of Israel, or the soldiers with Saul.
(d) "donec consumant ipsi eos", Pagninus; so Vatablus.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain A journey - So easy was the service, and…
A journey - So easy was the service, and so certain the success, that it was rather to be called a journey than a war.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Sa 15:18-19. The Lord sent thee on a journey…
1Sa 15:18-19. The Lord sent thee on a journey — So easy was the service, and so certain the success, that it was rather to be called a journey than a war. Wherefore didst thou not obey the voice of the Lord? — The command was as plain as words could make it; and there was no reason but his own base covetousness why it was not obeyed.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The sinners - As though God would justify His…
The sinners - As though God would justify His commission to destroy them. (Compare Gen 13:13.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 18. the sinners the Amalekites] Sin was the ground…
18. the sinners the Amalekites] Sin was the ground of their doom. The special sin which singled them out for punishment was their opposition to the will of God as regards the destiny of his people Israel.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (18) The sinners the Amalekites.—This briefly rehearses the charge…
(18) The sinners the Amalekites.—This briefly rehearses the charge of the Most High, which Saul had deliberately disobeyed. It is noticeable that the Amalekites are expressly called “sinners,” thus indicating the reason of the Divine wrath against them. The men of Sodom (Gen_13:13) were styled “sinners before the Lord.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The sinners. The Amalekites were a race of robbers,…
The sinners. The Amalekites were a race of robbers, and the command "to devote them" was the consequence of the robbery and murder practised by them on the Israelite borders.
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