...perhaps many ages afterwards, as in this case). " A"on? " S°" (said Samuel) " and smiie Ama" lek, and utterly destroy all that they " have, and spare...them not ; but slay " both man and woman, infant and suck" ling, ox and sheep, camel and ass" (1 Sam. xv. 1 — 3.) The nature of such a Commission of Vengeance...

...equal force have brought forward the command of the Lord to Saul to exterminate the Amalekites — " Now go, and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not ; but slay both men and women, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." The following passages appear to...

...they utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones of every city," Deut. c. ii. 34. " Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that...them not, but slay both man and woman, infant and striding, o* and sheep, camel and ass." 1 Sam. c. xv. vv. 5. 20. With regard to the final execution,...

...discomfiture. And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; And Samuel said to Saul, Go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have. And Saul smote the Amalekites, but took Agag their King alive; and spared the best of the Cattle for sacrifice,...

...rapine, and plunder, said to be given by the God of peace and mercy! Again, 1. Sam. chap. xv. ver. 3,'" Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that...them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and svckling,ox and sheep, camel and ass." — Horrid barbarity!! In what could " sucking infants" offend?...

...man. That blood-thirsty man, called the prophet Samuel, makes God to say, (1 Sam. chap. xv. ver. 3), " Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not, but slay both man anil li'oman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." That Sp.muel, or some other impostor,...

...called the prophet Samuel, makes God to say (1. Sam. chap. xv. ver. 3.) " Now, go and smite Amelek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and womau, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." That Samuel or some other impostor might...

...called the prophet Samuel, makes God to say (1. Sam. chap. xv. ver. 3.) " Now, go and smite Amelek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and womau, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." That Samuel or some other impostor might...

...remember that which Amalek did to Israel ; how he laid wait for him in the way when he came up from Egypt. Now go, and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all...them not ; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckJing, ox and sheep, camel and ass."* This order Saul obeyed but in part. He assumed and exercised...

...over his "people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the Lord. . . .Go, and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not" (1 Sam. xv. 1, 3). Instead of doing so, Saul and the people " spared the best of the sheep and of the...