King James Version
1 Samuel 15:7 in the King James Version says “And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.” — study this verse from 1 Samuel chapter 15 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.”
1 Samuel 15:7 · KJV
And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. laid: or, fought
And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. fatlings: or, second sort
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properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the Amalekites”
H6002amalek, a descendant of esau; also his posterity and their country
“from Havilah”
H2341chavilah, the name of two or three eastern regions; also perhaps of two men
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“that is over against”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
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