They had their home, it is said, in the desert which extended from Shur to Havilah.

Shur was the line of fortification which defended the eastern frontier of Egypt, and ran pretty much where the Suez Canal has been dug to-day; Havilah was the "sandy" desert of northern Arabia.

Here was the "city" of tents of which Agag was shekh, and which the troops of the Israelitish king burnt and spoiled.
But the remembrance of the expedition did not last long.

When civil war had weakened the power of Saul, and the march of the Philistine army to the north had left the south of Canaan without defenders, an Amalekite tribe again poured into Judah and sacked the Philistine town of Ziklag.
The wives and property of David and his followers were carried off into the wilderness.

But the marauders were overtaken by the Israelites they had robbed, and summary vengeance taken upon them.