1 Samuel 15:8
And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
1 Samuel 15:8 in other translations
| BSB | He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword. |
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| WEB | He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. |
| ASV | And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. |
| YLT | and he catcheth Agag king of Amalek alive, and all the people he hath devoted by the mouth of the sword; |
| DARBY | And he took Agag the king of Amalek alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. |
| BBE | He took Agag, king of the Amalekites, prisoner, and put all the people to the sword without mercy. |
| Webster | And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. |
What does 1 Samuel 15:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Samuel 15:7-9
7-9. Saul smote the Amalekites--His own view of the proper and expedient course to follow was his rule, not the command of God.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Samuel 15:1-9
The sentence of condemnation against the Amalekites had gone forth long before, Ex 17:14; De 25:19, but they had been spared till they filled up the measure of their sins. We are sure that the righteous Lord does no injustice to any. The remembering the kindness of the ancestors of the Kenites, in favour to them, at the time God was punishing the injuries done by the ancestors of the Amalekites, tended to clear the…
1 Samuel 15:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Samuel 15:8
- 1 Samuel 30:1
And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
- Numbers 24:7
He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
- Esther 3:1
After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
- 1 Kings 20:34-42
And Ben–hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away. And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the Lord, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him. Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the Lord, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him. Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him. …
- Joshua 11:12
And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded.
- 1 Samuel 15:3
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
- Joshua 10:39
And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.
- 1 Kings 20:30
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben–hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
- 1 Samuel 27:8-9
And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt. And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
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Context
- 1 Samuel 15:7
And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 15:8
And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
- 1 Samuel 15:9
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
1 Samuel 15:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y tomó vivo á Agag rey de Amalec, mas á todo el pueblo mató á filo de espada. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et il prit vivant Agag, roi d’Amalek, et détruisit entièrement tout le peuple par le tranchant de l’épée. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und er ergriff Agag, den König der Amalekiter, lebendig; und das ganze Volk verbannte er mit der Schärfe des Schwertes. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et apprehendit Agag regem Amalec vivum: omne autem vulgus interfecit in ore gladii. |