1 Samuel 15:5
And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
And Saul came to a citie of Amalek, and ‖laid waite in the valley.
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- ‖Alternative wordingOr, fought.
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1 Samuel 15:5
Sense 1: Placed, set, put down, deposited, arranged, established, founded, imposed, applied, stored, buried, or overlaid. Sense 2: Reclined or brought to rest.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Sense 1: To remain in expectation or readiness. Sense 2: To attend or serve. Sense 3: As a noun, an ambush or concealed watch.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893
1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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Low ground between hills or mountains, often watered by a stream.
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4And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
4And Saul gathered the people together, and numbred them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Iudah.
5And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
5And Saul came to a citie of Amalek, and ‖laid waite in the valley.
Selected passage6¶ And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
6¶ And Saul saide vnto the Kenites, Goe, depart, get you downe from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for yee shewed kindnesse to all the children of Israel when they came vp out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.