THEOSIS1 Kingdoms (1 Samuel) 15:18Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And the Lord sent thee on the way, and said: Go, and kill the sinners of Amalec, and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast utterly destroyed them.
וַיִּשְׁלָחֲךָ֥ יְהוָ֖ה בְּדָ֑רֶךְ וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לֵ֣ךְ וְהַחֲרַמְתָּ֞ה אֶת־הַֽחַטָּאִים֙ אֶת־עֲמָלֵ֔ק וְנִלְחַמְתָּ֣ ב֔וֹ עַ֥ד כַּלּוֹתָ֖ם אֹתָֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Job 31:3Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?
- Gen 15:16But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time.
- Prov 10:29The strength of the upright is the way of the Lord: and fear to them that work evil.
- Num 16:38In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into plates, and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them to the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children of Israel may see them for a sign and a memorial.
- Gen 13:13And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure.
- Prov 13:21Evil pursueth sinners: and to the just good shall be repaid.