1. SAMUEL TOLD Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint you king over His people Israel. Now listen and heed the words of the Lord.
2. Thus says the Lord of hosts, I have considered and will punish what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way when [Israel] came out of Egypt.
3. Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
4. So Saul assembled the men and numbered them at Telaim–200,000 men on foot and 10,000 men of Judah.
5. And Saul came to the city of Amalek and laid wait in the valley.
6. Saul warned the Kenites, Go, depart, get down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
7. Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.
8. And he took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, though he utterly destroyed all the rest of the people with the sword.
9. Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, oxen, fatlings, lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them; but all that was undesirable or worthless they destroyed utterly.
10. Then the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying,
11. I regret making Saul king, for he has turned back from following Me and has not performed My commands. And Samuel was grieved and angry [with Saul], and he cried to the Lord all night.
12. When Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, he was told, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up for himself a monument or trophy [of his victory] and passed on and went down to Gilgal.
13. And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, Blessed are you of the Lord. I have performed what the Lord ordered.