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1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

1 Samuel 15:3 BSB
  1. a Forms of the Hebrew cherem refer to the giving over of things or persons to the LORD, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering; also in verses 8, 9, 15, 18, 20, and 21.

1 Samuel 15:3 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Numbers 24:20 (6 votes) and Deuteronomy 20:16–18 (6 votes). 40 other verses point back to it. It links with 20 other books, from Genesis 3 to Revelation 16.

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Which verses does 1 Samuel 15:3 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Numbers 24:206 votes

    Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”

  2. Deuteronomy 20:16–186 votes

    However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes. For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you, …

  3. Numbers 31:174 votes

    So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,

  4. 1 Samuel 22:194 votes

    He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.

  5. Isaiah 14:21–224 votes

    Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities. “I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.

  6. Leviticus 27:28–293 votes

    Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD. No person set apart for destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.

  7. Joshua 6:17–213 votes

    Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent. But keep away from the things devoted to destruction, lest you yourself be set apart for destruction. If you take any of these, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and bring disaster upon it. …

  8. Genesis 3:17–182 votes

    And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

  9. Deuteronomy 13:15–162 votes

    you must surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword. Devote to destruction all its people and livestock. And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.

  10. Romans 8:20–222 votes

    For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. …

  11. Exodus 20:51 vote

Which verses point to 1 Samuel 15:3?

The 10 strongest of 40.