Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
WEB
Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley.
YLT
And Saul cometh in unto a city of Amalek, and layeth wait in a valley;
DBT
And Saul came to the city of the Amalekites, and set an ambush in the valley.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old Testament1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.
- Author
- Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
- Date
- Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy