1 Samuel 15:5

5 Saul went to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the ravine.

1 Samuel 15:5 in Other Translations

5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

5 And Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley.

5 Then Saul and his army went to a town of the Amalekites and lay in wait in the valley.

5 Saul marched to Amalek City and hid in the canyon.

5 And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

5 Saul went to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the valley.

5 Saul came to the city of Amalek and set up an ambush in the wadi.

5 He went to the city of Amalek. He had some of his men hide and wait in the valley.

1 Samuel 15:5 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 15:5

And Saul came to a city of Amalek
With his army, perhaps the nearest city of it to the land of Israel; though some think that Amalek was the name of the city, and was the metropolis of the nation, and had its name from thence: and laid wait in the valley; which was near the city, to intercept the inhabitants when they should come out against him: or "he contended" ^F23 as some render it, he fought with them there; the Targum,

``he ordered his army,''

set them in battle array, or pitched his camp there.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 (bryw) "et certavit Pagninus"; "ut contenderet cum eo", Junius & Tremellius.

1 Samuel 15:5 In-Context

3 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.’ ”

4 So Saul summoned the men and mustered them at Telaim—two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand from Judah.

5 Saul went to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the ravine.

6 Then he said to the Kenites, “Go away, leave the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you along with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.

7 Then Saul attacked the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt.