Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'amalekites' occurs 42 times in the standard works.

14 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'amalekites' in the standard works and contain 33.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 5 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Sam. 15:6-8 (4 in 3 verses)

 15:6 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

 15:7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.

 15:8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.




Alma 21:2-4 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 24:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 43:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 24:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 24 0 24
Gen. 1 0 1
Num. 4 0 4
Judg. 5 0 5
1 Sam. 12 0 12
2 Sam. 1 0 1
1 Chr. 1 0 1
NT 0 0 0
BM 18 0 18
DC 0 0 0
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 42 0 42

1 Sam. 14:48
And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.

1 Sam. 15:6
And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

1 Sam. 15:7
And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.

1 Sam. 15:8
And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

1 Sam. 15:15
And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

1 Sam. 15:18
And the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

1 Sam. 15:20
And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have gone the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

1 Sam. 15:32
Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

1 Sam. 27:8
And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.

1 Sam. 30:1
And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;

1 Sam. 30:18
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.