Deuteronomy 25:17

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Yahweh of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”

Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”

But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction.”

When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.

‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’ ”

The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”

He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, “Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction.”

You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.

He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.

When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,

David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.

He said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’

They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.

After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Susa; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.

But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.