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successful mission against the Amalekites to recover "all that the Amalekites had carried away". In 2 Samuel 1:5–10, an Amalekite tells David that he found

the Amlicites and Amalekites are the same group based on timing and spelling variations in Book of Mormon manuscripts. The Amalekites, a group introduced

rather than the Amalekites being the enemy.[citation needed] The Books of Samuel go on to mention that as a result, the people the Amalekites took were released

of the Amalekites whereby it is viewed as meaning either a literal descendant of Agag or a symbolic term for an antisemite, due to the Amalekites being

forewarned the Kenites who were living among the Amalekites to leave, Saul goes to war and defeats the Amalekites. Saul kills all the men, women, children and

vengeance on Agag for the cruelties they had undergone at the hands of the Amalekites, who, to mock at the Israelites, their God, and the rite of circumcision

Mount Seir is also given as the location where the remnants "of the Amalekites that had escaped" were annihilated by five hundred Simeonites (1 Chronicles

with the Amalekites' unprovoked attack against the Israelites (Exodus 17:8). Afterwards, Yahweh announced the extermination of the Amalekites and called

uses the staff in the battle at Rephidim between the Israelites and the Amalekites (Exodus 17:8–16). When he holds up his arms holding the "rod of God" the

similar event is described as taking place near Kadesh. Afterwards, the Amalekites attack the Israelites encamped at Rephidim, but are defeated. The Israelites