4. Saul called his forces together and inspected them at Telem: there were 200,000 soldiers from Israel and 10,000 from Judah.
5. Then he and his men went to the city of Amalek and waited in ambush in a dry riverbed.
6. He sent a warning to the Kenites, a people whose ancestors had been kind to the Israelites when they came from Egypt: “Go away and leave the Amalekites, so that I won't kill you along with them.” So the Kenites left.
7. Saul defeated the Amalekites, fighting all the way from Havilah to Shur, east of Egypt;