4 Saul summoned the army and mustered them at Telaim; two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah.
5 Then Saul came up to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the wadi.
6 Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, leave! Withdraw from among the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you with them. You have shown loyal love to all the Israelites when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites left from among the Amalekites.
7 Then Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as one goes to Shur which is east of Egypt.
8 He captured Agag the king of Amalek alive, but all the people he utterly destroyed with the edge of the sword.
9 However, Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and the cattle and the second best of the young fatlings and all that was valuable; they were not willing to utterly destroy them. But all the possessions that were despised or worthless, they utterly destroyed.
10 Then the word of Yahweh came to Samuel, saying,