1 Samuel 15:8 “He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to d…”

1 Samuel 15:8

He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

World English Bible

He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

American Standard Version

And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

Geneva Bible 1599

And tooke Agag the King of the Amalekites aliue, and destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

Darby Translation

And he took Agag the king of Amalek alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

Young's Literal Translation

and he catcheth Agag king of Amalek alive, and all the people he hath devoted by the mouth of the sword;

Bible in Basic English

He took Agag, king of the Amalekites, prisoner, and put all the people to the sword without mercy.

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Cross references

“Agag”

Numbers 24:7 Esther 3:1 1 Samuel 15:3 1 Kings 20:30 1 Kings 20:34–42

Numbers 24:7 · BSB

Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will have abundant water. His king will be greater than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.

Esther 3:1 · BSB

After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him to a position above all the princes who were with him.

1 Samuel 15:3 · BSB

Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

1 Kings 20:30 · BSB

The rest of them fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled to the city and hid in an inner room.

1 Kings 20:34–42 · BSB

Ben-hadad said to him, “I will restore the cities my father took from your father; you may set up your own marketplaces in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” “By this treaty I release you,” Ahab replied. So he made…

“utterly”

1 Samuel 30:1 Joshua 10:39 Joshua 11:12 1 Samuel 27:8

1 Samuel 30:1 · BSB

On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.

Joshua 10:39 · BSB

And they captured Debir, its king, and all its villages. They put them to the sword and devoted to destruction everyone in the city, leaving no survivors. Joshua did to Debir and its king as he had done to Hebron and as…

Joshua 11:12 · BSB

Joshua captured all these kings and their cities and put them to the sword. He devoted them to destruction, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded.

1 Samuel 27:8 · BSB

Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.

9Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to devote them to destruction, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.

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