1 Samuel 15:3,7 - Compare All Versions
1 Samuel 15:3 NIV (New International Version)
Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’ ”
1 Samuel 15:7 NIV (New International Version)
Then Saul attacked the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:3 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)
Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
1 Samuel 15:7 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)
And Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:3 NLT (New Living Translation)
Now go and completely destroy the entire Amalekite nation—men, women, children, babies, cattle, sheep, goats, camels, and donkeys.”
1 Samuel 15:7 NLT (New Living Translation)
Then Saul slaughtered the Amalekites from Havilah all the way to Shur, east of Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:3 CSB (Christian Standard Bible)
Now go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have. Do not spare them. Kill men and women, infants and nursing babies, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’ ”
1 Samuel 15:7 CSB (Christian Standard Bible)
Then Saul struck down the Amalekites from Havilah all the way to Shur, which is next to Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:3 KJV (King James Version)
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
1 Samuel 15:7 KJV (King James Version)
And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:3 NKJV (New King James Version)
Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”
I Samuel 15:7 NKJV (New King James Version)
And Saul attacked the Amalekites, from Havilah all the way to Shur, which is east of Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:2-3 MSG (The Message)
“‘I’m about to get even with Amalek for ambushing Israel when Israel came up out of Egypt. Here’s what you are to do: Go to war against Amalek. Put everything connected with Amalek under a holy ban. And no exceptions! This is to be total destruction—men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys—the works.’”
1 Samuel 15:7-9 MSG (The Message)
Then Saul went after Amalek, from the canyon all the way to Shur near the Egyptian border. He captured Agag, king of Amalek, alive. Everyone else was killed under the terms of the holy ban. Saul and the army made an exception for Agag, and for the choice sheep and cattle. They didn’t include them under the terms of the holy ban. But all the rest, which nobody wanted anyway, they destroyed as decreed by the holy ban.
1 Samuel 15:3 NASB2020 (New American Standard Bible - NASB)
Now go and strike Amalek and completely destroy everything that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”
1 Samuel 15:7 NASB2020 (New American Standard Bible - NASB)
Then Saul defeated the Amalekites, from Havilah going toward Shur, which is east of Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:3 AMP (Amplified Bible)
Now go and strike Amalek and completely destroy everything that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”
1 Samuel 15:7 AMP (Amplified Bible)
Saul defeated the Amalekites, from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:3 NET (New English Translation)
So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”
1 Samuel 15:7 NET (New English Translation)
Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is next to Egypt.