A city of Amalek. —Better rendered, The city of Amalek: no doubt, their principal place of arms.

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And Saul came to a city of Amalek With his army, perhaps the nearest city of it to the land of Israel; though some think that Amale…

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