◄ 1 Samuel 15:5 ►
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Good News Translation
Then he and his men went to the city of Amalek and waited in ambush in a dry riverbed.

New Revised Standard Version
Saul came to the city of the Amalekites and lay in wait in the valley.

Contemporary English Version
then led them to a valley near one of the towns in Amalek, where they got ready to make a surprise attack.

New American Bible
Saul went to the city of Amalek and set up an ambush in the wadi.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when Saul was come to the city of Amalec, he laid ambushes in the torrent.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when Saul was come to the city of Amalec, he laid ambushes in the torrent.

laid wait.

Context
Saul's Disobedience
…4So Saul commanded the people, and numbered them as lambs: two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand of the men of Juda. 5And when Saul was come to the city of Amalec, he laid ambushes in the torrent.6And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart, and get ye down from Amalec: lest I destroy thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. And the Cinite departed from the midst of Amalec.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:4
So Saul commanded the people, and numbered them as lambs: two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand of the men of Juda.

1 Samuel 15:6
And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart, and get ye down from Amalec: lest I destroy thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. And the Cinite departed from the midst of Amalec.

1 Samuel 15:4
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