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1 Samuel 15:5-7
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1 Samuel 15:5-7
New English Translation
5 Saul proceeded to the city[a] of Amalek, where he set an ambush[b] in the wadi.[c] 6 Saul said to the Kenites, “Go on and leave! Go down from among the Amalekites. Otherwise I will sweep you away[d] with them. After all, you were kind to all the Israelites when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites withdrew from among the Amalekites.
7 Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to[e] Shur, which is next to Egypt.
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- 1 Samuel 15:5 tc The LXX has the plural here, “cities.”
- 1 Samuel 15:5 tc The translation follows the LXX and Vulgate which assume a reading וַיָּאָרֶב (vayyaʾarev, “and he set an ambush,” from the root אָרַב [ʾarav] with quiescence of alef) rather than the MT, which has וַיָּרֶב (vayyareb, “and he contended,” from the root רִיב [riv]).
- 1 Samuel 15:5 tn That is, “the dry stream bed.”
- 1 Samuel 15:6 tc The translation follows the Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate which assume a reading אֶסְפָךְ (ʾesfak, “I sweep you away,” from the root סָפָה [safah]) rather than the MT אֹסִפְךָ (ʾosifeka, “I am gathering you,” from the root אָסַף [ʾasaf]).
- 1 Samuel 15:7 tn Heb “[as] you enter.”
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