The Amalekites are the descendents of Ismael, Jacob’s uncle, and Esau, his twin brother, who married Ismael’s daughter. They have proven to be Israel’s worst enemy to this day, but Amalek is also God’s enemy. God said that He would be at war with him through all generations. King Saul was commanded to kill them all, but he spared their King Agag, whom the prophet Samuel then killed with the sword. Yet his descendent, Haman the Agagite, turned up centuries later when Israel was in exile in Persia. He devised a plot to kill all the Jews in the
