2 Kingdoms (2 Samuel) 1:8Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And he said to me: Who art thou? And I said to him: I am an Amalecite.
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר לִ֖י מִי־אָ֑תָּה ויאמר וָאֹמַ֣ר אֵלָ֔יו עֲמָלֵקִ֖י אָנֹֽכִי׃
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- 1 Sam 30:17And David slew them from the evening unto the evening of the next day, and there escaped not a man of them, but four hundred young men, who had gotten upon camels, and fled.
- 1 Sam 30:13And David said to him: To whom dost thou belong; or whence dost thou come? and whither art thou going? He said: I am a young man of Egypt, the servant of an Amalecite: and my master left me, because I began to be sick three days ago.
- 1 Sam 30:1Now when David and his men were come to Siceleg on the third day, the Amalecites had made an invasion on the south side upon Siceleg, and had smitten Siceleg, and burnt it with fire,
- 1 Sam 15:3Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that he hath: spare him not, nor covet anything that is his: but slay both man and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
- Num 24:20And when he saw Amalec, he took up his parable, and said: Amalec the beginning of nations, whose latter ends shall be destroyed.
- Deut 25:17Remember what Amalec did to thee in the way when thou camest out of Egypt:
- Deut 25:19Therefore when the Lord thy God shall give thee rest, and shall have subdued all the nations round about in the land which he hath promised thee: thou shalt blot out his name from under heaven. See thou forget it not.
- Ex 17:8And Amalec came, and fought against Israel in Raphidim.