¹⁶ So he led him, and there were the Amalekites, spread out over the entire area, eating, drinking, and celebrating because of the great amount of plunder^(A) they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.

¹⁶ therefore this is what the Lord God says: I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines,^(A) cutting off the Cherethites and wiping out what remains of the coastal peoples.^[a](B)