Utterly destroy - Rather, “devote to destruction” (see the note on Leviticus 27:28). When a city or people were thus made cherem, e…

(1 Samuel 15:1–3) Samuel also said unto Saul ... —The compiler of the history, selecting, no doubt, from anci…

Now go and smite Amalek
This was one of the three things the Israelites were obliged to do when they came into the l…

The sentence of condemnation against the Amalekites had been issued long before (Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 25:19), but they…