1 Samuel 15:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³ Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”’

⁴ So Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot-soldiers, and ten thousand soldiers of Judah. ⁵ Saul came to the city of the Amalekites and lay in wait in the valley.