“So I stood beside him and killed him, because I knew that after he had fallen he could not survive. For David had said to him, “Your blood be on your own head. Your own mouth testified against you when you said, ‘I killed the LORD’s anointed.

Amalek, the Bible tells us, is an evil nation that is to be wiped out completely.

Amalekite, member of an ancient nomadic tribe, or collection of tribes, described in the Old Testament as relentless enemies of Israel, even though they were closely related to Ephraim, one of the 12 tribes of Israel. The district over which they ranged was south of Judah and probably extended into northern Arabia.

Twice David orders death for the bearers of news that, though seemingly advantageous to his rise, he laments to hear. A close literary reading shows that executing the messenger is not David’s policy—it is his politics. Where David finds no political advantage, he kills no messenger, however bad the news.

But soon he finds out that they were just as fragile as the humans, they were also a threat to him as we saw in Prometheus. So, in order to be a God on a new planet he decided that he needed to start from scratch, killing all the Engineers.

In the four-minute Covenant prologue, though, it seems like he’s forged a close relationship with her, and possibly accepted her goal of confronting them to learn about what they had planned for humanity. Instead, he wipes them out by releasing the black goo the Engineers seemingly had prepared for Earth.

The engineers created man in the hopes of helping life flourish across the galaxy, only to see him crucify his savior. Man created the android David because he could, but he made him too well — too smart, too strong, too long-lived.

Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground. So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.