1 Samuel 15:3

15:3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare ¹  them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”

1 Samuel 15:20-21

15:20 Then Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed ²  the Lord! I went on the campaign ³  the Lord sent me on. I brought back King Agag of the Amalekites after exterminating the Amalekites. 15:21 But the army took from the plunder some of the sheep and cattle – the best of what was to be slaughtered – to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”

¹ tn Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).

² tn Heb “listened to the voice of the Lord.”

³ tn Heb “journey.”