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 15:19

15:19 Why haven’t you obeyed ²  the Lord? Instead you have greedily rushed upon the plunder! You have done what is wrong in the Lord’s estimation.” ³ 

1 Samuel 15:2

15:2 Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed ⁴  Israel along the way when Israel ⁵  came up from Egypt.

1 Raja-raja 5:16

5:16 besides 3,300 ⁶  officials who supervised the workers. ⁷ 

Ester 8:11

8:11 The king thereby allowed the Jews who were in every city to assemble and to stand up for themselves – to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any army of whatever people or province that should become their adversaries, including their women and children, ⁸  and to confiscate their property.

[15:3]  ¹ tn Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).

[15:19]  ² tn Heb “listened to the voice of the Lord.”

[15:19]  ³ tn Heb “you have done what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

[15:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “what Amalek did to Israel, how he placed against him.”

[15:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:16]  ⁶ tc Some Greek mss of the OT read “3,600”; cf. 2 Chr 2:2, 18 and NLT.

[5:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “besides thirty-three hundred from the officials of Solomon’s governors who were over the work, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”

[8:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “children and women.” As in 3:13, the translation follows contemporary English idiom, which reverses the order.