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 25:8

25:8 Ask your own servants; they can tell you! May my servants find favor in your sight, for we have come ²  at the time of a holiday. Please provide us – your servants ³  and your son David – with whatever you can spare.” ⁴ 

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

² tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss in reading בָּאנוּ (ba’nu, “we have come”) rather than the MT’s בָּנוּ (banu, “we have built”).

³ tn This refers to the ten servants sent by David.

⁴ tn Heb “whatever your hand will find.”