1 Samuel 15:3-5

Common English Bible

³ So go! Attack the Amalekites; put everything that belongs to them under the ban.^[a] Spare no one. Kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.”

⁴ Saul called out the troops and counted them at Telaim: two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand more troops from Judah. ⁵ Then Saul advanced on the Amalekite city and laid an ambush in the valley.