...march against them, and to u Airare neither them, nor to desire any tiling that was their?, but to slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." Saul, in obedience to his orders, invaded the country of the Amolckites, and cut to pieces all whom...

...3,) "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly estroy all that they have, and spare them not, bui klaif both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and *MS." LETTER TO A FRIEND. it. All our ideas of the justice and goodness of God revolt at the impious...

...together with all the best of the spoil, when he had been strictly enjoined to destroy every thing, " man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." This, at first sight, might appear a venial fault, inasmuch as he had leaned to the side of mercy,...

...tke king, our master—' I will burst open your portal, and smite, and utterly destroy all that you have, and spare them not ; but slay both man and woman,...infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.'" "To whom ?" inquired the astonished captain. " Call forth the venerable lord Bostenay," said the captain...

...hence we may know what those have to expect who do any injury to the saints of God ; up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not : but slay both roan and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."* Saul having assembled an army of...

...horrible, " Amen 1" Shall I quote for you still another example ? It is at hand : 1st Samuel xv, 3 to 33. " Slay both man and woman ! infant and suckling ! ox and sheep, camel and ass." Saul spared not indeed the women and children, but the king and the best of the cattle ; and because...

...remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that...infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." It was a severe decree ; but that Being made it who is infinitely wise, and just, in all that he does,...

...remember that which Amalek did to Israel ; how he laid wait for him in the way when he came up from Egypt This order Saul obeyed but in part He assumed and exercised a dispensing power, and^it became a snare...

...man. That blood-thirsty man, called the prophet Samuel, makes God to say, (1 Sam. ch. xv. ver. 3,) " Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not, bwt slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel ana ass." That Samuel, or some...

...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...