⁹ But Saul and the army spared^(A) Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves^[a] and lambs—everything that was good. These they were unwilling to destroy completely, but everything that was despised and weak they totally destroyed.

¹⁹ Why did you not obey the Lord? Why did you pounce on the plunder^(A) and do evil in the eyes of the Lord?”

²³ that I will accept nothing belonging to you,^(A) not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich.’

¹⁷ The city and all that is in it are to be devoted^[a](A) to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute^(B) and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid^(C) the spies we sent.

¹⁹ He also put to the sword^(A) Nob,^(B) the town of the priests, with its men and women, its children and infants, and its cattle, donkeys and sheep.

⁹ Whenever David attacked an area, he did not leave a man or woman alive,^(A) but took sheep and cattle, donkeys and camels, and clothes. Then he returned to Achish.

¹⁸ Because you did not obey^(A) the Lord or carry out his fierce wrath^(B) against the Amalekites,^(C) the Lord has done this to you today.

¹³ Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews^(A)—young and old, women and children—on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar,^(B) and to plunder^(C) their goods.

⁵ The Jews struck down all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them,^(A) and they did what they pleased to those who hated them.