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So Saul called his army to come together. The men met at Telaim and Saul counted them. There were 200,000 soldiers from Israel and another 10,000 men from Judah's tribe. Saul and his army went to the city of the Amalekites. They waited in a small valley to attack their enemy. Saul said to the Kenite people, ‘Go away from here! I will kill the Amalekites, but I do not want to kill you. You were kind to the Israelites when they came out from Egypt.’ So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.[a]

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  1. 15:6 The Kenite tribe probably lived among the Amalekites.