* Now go.
   The Amalekites, a people of Arabia Petr(9161), who inhabited a
   tract of country on the frontiers of Egypt and Canaan, had
   acted with great cruelty towards the Israelites on their
   coming out of Egypt, and God then purposed that Amalek, as a
   nation, should be blotted out from under heaven; but it had
   been spared till it had filled up the measure of its
   iniquities, and now this purpose is carried into effect by
   Saul, upwards of 400; years afterwards!  Nothing could justify
   such an exterminating decree but the absolute authority of
   God; and this was given:  all the reasons of it we do not
   know; but this we know well, the Judge of all the earth doeth
   right.

 * utterly destroy.
  Le 27:28,29  Nu 24:20  De 13:15,16  20:16-18  Jos 6:17-21 
 * slay.
  Ex 20:5  Nu 31:17  Isa 14:21,22 
 * ox and sheep.
  Ge 3:17,18  Ro 8:20-22