[Avodah] Who First Said it?

[Joe Schoemann]

From: Danny Schoemann [mailto:doniels at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 1:50 PM
> rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com asked:
>> Who was the first Poseiq to suggest or require reading BOTH Zecher and
>> Zeicher in Parshas Zachor?

> Seems that it was the Chofetz Chaim in MB 685:7:(18) "Know that some
> say that you should read Zeicher Amolek and some say Zecher therfore
> you should read it twice."

> He does not quote a source; something rather unusual for the MB, AFAIK.

I recently heard that Dovid Hamelech asked one of his generals, why he
hadn't wiped out the whole of Amolek, he had not killed the women . The
general replied that the Torah say zecher Amolok and not the women. So this
is an old error. Why we perpetuate this error puzzles me.