...Israelites had been expressly commanded to exterminate these nations; that God had said to Saul, " Go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not," and that the latter had been charged by Samuel with great guilt for not complying strictly with this...

...was bound to spare neither man nor beast, to make no captives, nor carry off any plunder, but " to slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." Saul accordingly took the field at the head of a numerous and well-appointed army ; success attended...

...Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way when he came up from Egypt. 3 Now go, and smite Amalek, and e utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not ; but 'slay both inan and woman, infant and suckling, «ox and sheep, camel and ass. 4 And Saul gathered the people...

...infidels, a few words by way of comment may be allowed. By the command of Jehovah, Samuel ordered Saul "to go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that...infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." Now this command was peremptorily given and ought as effectively to have been fulfilled ; for besides,...

...man and woman, young and old, andojc, and sheep, and ass ;" * that the orders given to Saul were to " go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that...woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and <m."t And that in the last and most fearful of the plagues of Egypt, J " the Lord smote all the first-born...

...and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass ;"* that the orders given to Saul were to " go and smite Arnalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare...but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, or and sheep, cameland a**." t And that in the last and most fearful of the plagues of Egypt, J " the...

...them, are unworthy of God as may be seen at large in ihe 15th chapter of the first Book of Samuel. "Spare them -not, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." The ostensible reason for all this, was, because the ancestors of the Amalekites, as long before the...

..." to go and smite Amalek, and utterly to destroy all that they had, and to spare them not ; but to slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." The inspired historian informs us, that Saul and his people destroyed the Ainalekites with the edge...

...remember that which Amalek did to Israel, 'how he laid wait for Mm in the way, when he came up from Egypt. God is departed from me, and answereth me no more,...nor by dreams : therefore I have called thee, tha .8. Num. 24.80. r SAUL UKTl I1N1NO HIOJI U A'll'l.-K WITH TIIK Sl'nll. OC THK AMALRKITK*. AUAl'TKD...

...remembrance of Amelek from under heaven ; thou shalt not forget it." — In 1 Sam. xv. 2, 3. Smite Amelek and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare...man and woman, infant and. suckling, ox and sheep." In the seventh and eighth verses of the same chapter we are told, '• Saul smote the Amalekites, and...