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Selected Verse: 1 Samuel 15:7 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Sa 15:7 |
Strong Concordance |
And Saul [07586] smote [05221] the Amalekites [06002] from Havilah [02341] until thou comest [0935] to Shur [07793], that is over against [06440] Egypt [04714]. |
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King James |
And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
HE SPARES AGAG AND THE BEST OF THE SPOIL. (Sa1 15:7-9)
Saul smote the Amalekites--His own view of the proper and expedient course to follow was his rule, not the command of God. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The district here described would stretch from Havilah on the extreme east to Shur, either near Suez, or further north on the coast road from Gaza to Egypt. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| To Shur - That is, from one end of their country to the other; he smote all that he met with: but a great number of them fled away upon the noise of his coming, and secured themselves in other places, 'till the storm was over. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| From Havilah - to Shur - From Pelusium in Egypt, unto the Red Sea. - Josephus. But Havilah lay eastward from the Red Sea; the Amalekites lay between this and the way to Egypt towards Shur. |
7 And Saul [07586] smote [05221] the Amalekites [06002] from Havilah [02341] until thou comest [0935] to Shur [07793], that is over against [06440] Egypt [04714].
8 And he took [08610] Agag [090] the king [04428] of the Amalekites [06002] alive [02416], and utterly destroyed [02763] all the people [05971] with the edge [06310] of the sword [02719].
9 But Saul [07586] and the people [05971] spared [02550] Agag [090], and the best [04315] of the sheep [06629], and of the oxen [01241], and of the fatlings [04932], and the lambs [03733], and all that was good [02896], and would [014] not utterly destroy [02763] them: but every thing [04399] that was vile [05240] and refuse [04549], that they destroyed utterly [02763].