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 15:18
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 Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).
2 tn Heb “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”).