Samuel delivers the command

1Then Samuel said to Saul, “Yahweh sent me to anoint you as king over his people, over Israel. So now, listen to the words of Yahweh.”

2Thus says Yahweh of hosts: ‘I have taken note of what Amalek did to Israel, how he opposed him on the way when he came up from Egypt.’

3Now go and strike Amalek, and devote to destruction all that belongs to him. Do not spare him, but put to death from man to woman, from child to nursing infant, from ox to sheep, from camel to donkey.