1 Samuel 15:4-9
4Then Saul summoned the people and 1numbered them in aTelaim, 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah. 5And Saul came to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the valley. 6And Saul said to athe Kenites, “Go, depart; go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; byou showed lovingkindness to all the sons of Israel when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. 7So aSaul struck the Amalekites, from bHavilah as you go to cShur, which is 1east of Egypt. 8And he seized aAgag the king of the Amalekites alive and bdevoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword. 9But Saul and the people aspared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and they were not willing to devote them to destruction; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.