Discovery Box1 Samuel 15:3 
Context15:3 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 15:8
Context15:8 He captured King Agag of the Amalekites alive, but he executed all Agag’s people 2 with the sword.
1 Samuel 15:18-19
Context15:18 The Lord sent you on a campaign 3 saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you 4 have destroyed them.’ 15:19 Why haven’t you obeyed 5 the Lord? Instead you have greedily rushed upon the plunder! You have done what is wrong in the Lord’s estimation.” 6
1 tn Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).
2 tn Heb “all the people.” For clarity “Agag’s” has been supplied in the translation.
3 tn Heb “journey.”
4 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”).
5 tn Heb “listened to the voice of the
6 tn Heb “you have done what is evil in the eyes of the
