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1 Samuel 15:4-6
New Catholic Bible
1 Samuel 15:4-6
New Catholic Bible
4 Saul summoned the people and counted them at Telaim. There were two hundred thousand soldiers and ten thousand men from Judah. 5 Saul went to the city of Amalek and set up an ambush in the valley.
6 Saul said to the Kenites, “Go away, leave the Amalekites, so that I not destroy you along with them. You were kind to all of the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.[a]
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- 1 Samuel 15:6 The Kenites were a semi-nomad people who were allied with Israel in the wilderness and during the conquest (Num 10:29; Jdg 1:16).
