2 Thus says the Lord of hosts: I will punish what Amalek did to the Israelites when he barred their way as they came up from Egypt.
3 Go, now, attack Amalek, and put under the ban everything he has. Do not spare him; kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.”
4 Saul alerted the army, and at Telaim reviewed two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah.
5 Saul went to the city of Amalek and set up an ambush in the wadi.
6 He warned the Kenites: “Leave Amalek, turn aside and come down so I will not have to destroy you with them, for you were loyal to the Israelites when they came up from Egypt.” After the Kenites left,
7 Saul routed Amalek from Havilah to the approaches of Shur, on the frontier of Egypt.
8 He took Agag, king of Amalek, alive, but the rest of the people he destroyed by the sword, putting them under the ban.