5. Saul went to the city of Amalek and set up an ambush in the wadi.
6. He warned the Kenites: “Leave Amalek, turn aside and come down so I will not have to destroy you with them, for you were loyal to the Israelites when they came up from Egypt.” After the Kenites left,
7. Saul routed Amalek from Havilah to the approaches of Shur, on the frontier of Egypt.
8. He took Agag, king of Amalek, alive, but the rest of the people he destroyed by the sword, putting them under the ban.
9. He and his troops spared Agag and the best of the fat sheep and oxen, and the lambs. They refused to put under the ban anything that was worthwhile, destroying only what was worthless and of no account.
10. Then the word of the Lord came to Samuel: