This document discusses the history of the Amalekites according to the Bible. It describes how Esau's grandson Amalek was the progenitor of the Amalekite people and nation. Several biblical passages are cited that reference the Amalekites attacking the Israelites or being defeated by them. The document suggests that Saul failed to completely destroy the Amalekites as God commanded. It notes that the Book of Esther identifies Haman, the main villain, as being a descendant of Agag, the Amalekite king captured by Saul. The document analyzes the biblical theme of obedience being more important than sacrifice and connects this to Saul's disobedience in sparing Agag.

1. The Amalekites
History and symbolism
Laindon 13th February 2019

2. Genesis ch 36
8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
9 And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in
mount Seir:
10 These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the
wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.

3. Genesis ch 36
11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and
Gatam, and Kenaz.
12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare
to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife.

5. Genesis ch 36
8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
9 And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in
mount Seir:

6. Genesis ch 36
8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
9 And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in
mount Seir:

9. Genesis ch 25
5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had,
Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while
he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

10. Genesis ch 14
5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that
were with him . . .
7 . . . And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh,
and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites,
that dwelt in Hazezontamar.

11. Genesis ch 14
5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings
that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth
Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emins in Shaveh
Kiriathaim,
6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by
the wilderness.

12. Genesis ch 14
5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that
were with him . . .
7 . . . And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh,
and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites,
that dwelt in Hazezontamar.

14. From Shur as far as Egypt on the west . . .
. . . To Havilah in the east

15. 1 Samuel ch 15
7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from
Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is
over against Egypt.

16. 1 Samuel ch 27
8 And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites,
and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of
old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto
the land of Egypt.

17. From Shur as far as Egypt on the west . . .
. . . To Havilah in the east

18. Exodus ch 17
8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out,
fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill
with the rod of God in mine hand.

19. Exodus ch 17
13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of
the sword.
14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a
book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out
the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven . . .
16 . . . For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will
have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

20. Deuteronomy ch 23
7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor
an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.
BUT
Deuteronomy ch 25
17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come
forth out of Egypt;

21. Deuteronomy ch 25
18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that
were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all
thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for
an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek
from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

22. Numbers ch 24
20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and
said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall
be that he perish for ever.

23. Numbers ch 24
20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and
said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall
be that he perish for ever.

24. Numbers ch 24
20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and
said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall
be that he perish for ever.

25. Judges ch 3
12 . . . the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against
Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and
Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of
palm trees.

26. Judges ch 3
30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of
Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.

27. Judges ch 5
14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek;
after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came
down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen
of the writer.

28. Judges ch 6
1 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and
the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years . . .
3 . . . And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came
up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came
up against them;

29. The
Kingdom
of
Saul

30. 1 Samuel ch 15
2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did
to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from
Egypt.
3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have,
and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and
suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

32. 1 Samuel ch 15
8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly
destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep,
and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that
was good . . .

33. Numbers ch 24
7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed
shall be in many waters, and his (Israel’s) king shall be higher
than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

34. Numbers ch 24
7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed
shall be in many waters, and his (Israel’s) king shall be higher
than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

35. 1 Samuel ch 15
22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt
offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the
fat of rams.

36. Psalm 40
6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou
opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of
me,
8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

37. Isaiah ch 1
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith
the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed
beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of
he goats.
Micah ch 6
7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten
thousands of rivers of oil?

38. Matthew ch 7
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in
heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied
in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name
done many wonderful works?

39. Matthew ch 7
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart
from me, ye that work iniquity.
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth
them . . .

40. 1 Samuel ch 27
8 And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites,
and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old
the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the
land of Egypt.

41. 1 Samuel ch 27
10 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And
David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south
of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.

42. The
Kingdom
of
Saul

43. 1 Samuel ch 30
1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag
on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag,
and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire . . .
13 . . . And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and
whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant
to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I
fell sick.

44. 1 Samuel ch 30
17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening
of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four
hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away:
and David rescued his two wives.

45. 1 Chronicles ch 4
41 And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of
Judah . . .
42 . . . And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men,
went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and
Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
43 And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and
dwelt there unto this day.

46. Josephus
Jewish historian
37 - 100 AD
“Haman the Agagite, one of the posterity of Agag, the
old king of the Amalakites”
Antiquities Book vi, ch vii, para 2 footnote

47. SAUL
“Now there was a man of Benjamin,
whose name was Kish . . . And he had a
son whose name was Saul . . . “ 1 Samuel 9: 1-2
AGAG
“And he took Agag the king of the
Amalekites alive . . .” 1 Samuel 15: 8
MORDECAI
“There was a certain Jew, whose name was
Mordecai . . . the son of Kish, a Benjamite”
Esther 2: 5
HAMAN
“the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the
enemy of all the Jews” Esther 9: 24

48. SAUL
“Now there was a man of Benjamin,
whose name was Kish . . . And he had a
son whose name was Saul . . . “ 1 Samuel 9: 1-2
AGAG
“And he took Agag the king of the
Amalekites alive . . .” 1 Samuel 15: 8
MORDECAI
“There was a certain Jew, whose name was
Mordecai . . . the son of Kish, a Benjamite”
Esther 2: 5
HAMAN
“the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the
enemy of all the Jews” Esther 9: 24

49. SAUL
“Now there was a man of Benjamin,
whose name was Kish . . . And he had a
son whose name was Saul . . . “ 1 Samuel 9: 1-2
AGAG
“And he took Agag the king of the
Amalekites alive . . .” 1 Samuel 15: 8
MORDECAI
“There was a certain Jew, whose name was
Mordecai . . . the son of Kish, a Benjamite”
Esther 2: 5
HAMAN
“the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the
enemy of all the Jews” Esther 9: 24

50. The Amalekites
History and symbolism

51. Adolf
Eichmann
1906 - 1962
Major
organiser
of the
Holocaust

52. Telegram from Frau Eichmann to Israeli president, Yitshak Ben-Zvi
(made public in 2016)
“As a wife and mother of four children spare my husband’s life.”
The president’s response, in a handwritten note attached to the telegram was,
“But Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so will your
mother be childless among women.”

53. Ezekiel ch 38
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the
same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an
evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I
will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling
without walls, and having neither bars nor gates . . .

54. Numbers ch 24
7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed
shall be in many waters, and his (Israel’s) king shall be higher
than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

55. Isaiah ch 24
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish
the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the
earth upon the earth . . .
23 . . . Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed,
when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in
Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

56. Haman the Agagite Gog
(Amalekite}
Events happen in Persia Persia in list of allies
Esther 1:3 Ezekiel 38:5
Haman is advanced Gog is chief prince
Esther 3:1 Ezekiel 38:2
Haman to destroy the Jews Gog thinks an evil thought
Esther 3:9 Ezekiel 38:10
The Jews in unwalled towns The land of unwalled villages
Esther 9:19 Ezekiel 38:11

57. Haman the Agagite Gog
(Amalekite}
Haman authorises taking a spoil Gog comes to take a spoil
Esther 3:13 Ezekiel 38:12
Shushan perplexed by this Sheba and others take issue
Esther 3:15 Ezekiel 38:13
Slaughter of Haman Gog falls on mountains of Israel
Esther 7:10 Ezekiel 39:4
Ezekiel ch 39
11 There shall they bury Gog and all his multitude:
and they shall call it the valley of Hamon-gog
(Hamon-gog - from same Hebrew roots as Haman-Agag)

58. Deuteronomy ch 25
18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that
were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all
thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for
an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek
from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

59. Revelation ch 20
7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out
of his prison,
8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four
quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to
battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

60. Revelation ch 20
9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed
the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came
down from God out of heaven, and devoured them

61. 1 Corinthians ch 15
28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then
shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all
things under him, that God may be all in all.