30:14 We conducted a raid on the Negev of the Kerethites, on the area of Judah, and on the Negev of Caleb. We burned Ziklag.” 1
1 Samuel 30:2
30:2 They took captive the women who were in it, from the youngest to the oldest, but they did not kill anyone. They simply carried them off and went on their way.
1 Samuel 15:18
15:18 The Lord sent you on a campaign 2 saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you 3 have destroyed them.’
1 tn The Hebrew text adds “with fire.”
2 tnHeb “journey.”
3 tc The translation follows the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum in reading the second person singular suffix (“you”) rather than the third person plural suffix of the MT (“they”).