1 Samuel 15:6 (DRB)

Passage

And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart, and get ye down from Amalec: lest I destroy thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. And the Cinite departed from the midst of Amalec.

Nearby Context

1 Samuel 15:4 So Saul commanded the people, and numbered them as lambs: two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand of the men of Juda.

1 Samuel 15:5 And when Saul was come to the city of Amalec, he laid ambushes in the torrent.

1 Samuel 15:6 And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart, and get ye down from Amalec: lest I destroy thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. And the Cinite departed from the midst of Amalec.

1 Samuel 15:7 And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila, until thou comest to Sur, which is over against Egypt.

1 Samuel 15:8 And he took Agag, the king of Amalec, alive: but all the common people he slew with the edge of the sword.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "saul", "said", "cinite", "depart", "down", "amalec", "lest", and "destroy". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "saul" and "said", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 5's "And when Saul was come to the..." into verse 7's "And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila until...", so "saul" and "said" belong inside that flow. In 1 Samuel context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "saul" and "said" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.