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 24:21

24:21 So now swear to me in the Lord’s name ²  that you will not kill ³  my descendants after me or destroy my name from the house of my father.”

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¹ tn Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).

² tn Heb “by the Lord.”

³ tn Heb “cut off.”