1 Samuel 15:18

15:18 The Lord sent you on a campaign ¹  saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you ²  have destroyed them.’

1 Samuel 27:8

27:8 Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (They had been living in that land for a long time, from the approach ³  to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.)

[15:18]  ¹ tn Heb “journey.”

[15:18]  ² tc The translation follows the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum in reading the second person singular suffix (“you”) rather than the third person plural suffix of the MT (“they”).

[27:8]  ³ tn Heb “from where you come.”