This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ... and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not. And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telatm,1 two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. When he came to the Kenites, he said to them: depart, and get down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ... and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not. And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telatm,1 two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. When he came to the Kenites, he said to them: depart, and get down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for you showed kindness to the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. Now Saul smote the Amalekites, took Agag their King2 alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. He spared the life of the King and, entreated by his men, he saved also the finest flocks and herds, reserving them for offerings to the Lord. "When Samuel heard that, his anger was roused. He at once proceeded to meet the returning King, and at break of day he came to him at Gilgal. "When the King saw him, he saluted him, and said: Blessed bo thou of the Lord; I have performed the commandment of the Lord. But Samuel replied: What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen'which I hear? And Saul said: The people have brought them from the Amalekites; for they spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed. Then Samuel said to Saul: Stay, and I will tell thee what the Lord has said to me this night. And he said to him: Say on! And Samuel said: When thou wast little in thy own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed thee king over Israel? And the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said: Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed. Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voi...
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