World English Bible
1 Samuel 15:6
“Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 15
4
Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
5
Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
6
Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
7
Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.
8
He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
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