American Standard Version
1 Samuel 15:7
7And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou goest to Shur, that is before Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
- New International Version (NIV)Then Saul attacked the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And Saul attacked the Amalekites, from Havilah all the way to Shur, which is east of Egypt.
Context of 1 Samuel 15:7
5And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. 6And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for ye showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou goest to Shur, that is before Egypt. 8And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. 9But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
Read all of 1 Samuel 151 Samuel 15:7 word by word
וַיַּ֥ךְ שָׁא֖וּל אֶת־עֲמָלֵ֑ק מֵֽחֲוִילָה֙ בּוֹאֲךָ֣ שׁ֔וּר אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י מִצְרָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for 1 Samuel 15:7
- 1 Samuel 14:48And he did valiantly, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that despoiled them.
- Job 21:30That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
- Ecclesiastes 8:13but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
- Genesis 2:11The name of the first is Pishon: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
- Genesis 25:18And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: he abode over against all his brethren.
- 1 Samuel 27:8And David and his men went up, and made a raid upon the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those nations were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 16:7And the angel of Jehovah found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Commentaries on 1 Samuel 15:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7From Havilah - to Shur - From Pelusium in Egypt, unto the Red Sea. - Josephus. But Havilah lay eastward from the Red Sea; the Amalekites lay between this and the way to Egypt towards Shur.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7The district here described would stretch from Havilah on the extreme east to Shur, either near Suez, or further north on the coast road from Gaza to Egypt.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7The area where the Amalekites lived stretched from Havilah in northern Sinai to Shur near the eastern border of Egypt.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 7-97-9. Saul smote the Amalekites--His own view of the proper and expedient course to follow was his rule, not the command of God.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Samuel 15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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