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Fourthly, Gods anger for many years after continued against Amalek. Numb. 24. 20. His latter end shall be, that he perish for ever: and Deut. 25. 19. Moses gives a charge, that after Israel was possessed of his inheritance, that he must blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under Heaven, Thou shalt not forget it. And further, although at the first, when Amalek came against Israel, there was a great slaughter of them, yet more then four hundred years after, 1 Sam. 15. 2. God says, He remembered what Amalek did to Israel, and gave a charge to Saul to go and smite them, and utterly to destroy all they had, not to spare, but to slay Man and Woman, Infant, Suckling, Ox, Sheep, Camel, and Ass; and it is observable, whereas in all other places that were not of Canaan, though they did smite the male, yet they were to spare the women, the little ones, and the cattle, and all that was in the City, as Deut. 20. 14. but not so in Amalek, yet Amalek was not of Canaan; God had a more special quarrel against Amalek, then against any of the other Countries: Yea, whereas in Canaan, although men and women were destroyed, as in Ai, Josh. 8. Yet the cattle, and the spoil of the City they took to themselves, ver. 27. but they might not do so in Amalek, the destroying the Cattle, and all there was in it, was for the greater horror, to show what an abominable, and an accursed thing Amalek was.

Fourthly, Gods anger for many years after continued against Amalek. Numb. 24. 20. His latter end shall be, that he perish for ever: and Deut. 25. 19. Moses gives a charge, that after Israel was possessed of his inheritance, that he must blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under Heaven, Thou shalt not forget it. And further, although at the first, when Amalek came against Israel, there was a great slaughter of them, yet more then four hundred years after,