1 Samuel 15:3-5

New Catholic Bible

³ Go now, and attack Amalek. Wipe out everything that belongs to them. Do not spare any of them, kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’ ”

⁴ Saul summoned the people and counted them at Telaim. There were two hundred thousand soldiers and ten thousand men from Judah. ⁵ Saul went to the city of Amalek and set up an ambush in the valley.