1 Samuel 15:3-5

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ Now go and smite Am′alek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.’”

⁴ So Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Tela′im, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah. ⁵ And Saul came to the city of Am′alek, and lay in wait in the valley.