1 Samuel 15:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.”
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“He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and he catcheth Agag king of Amalek alive, and all the people he hath devoted by the mouth of the sword;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Samuel 15:8 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 27:29No person set apart for destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.
- Numbers 24:7Water 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.
- Joshua 8:23But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
- Joshua 10:39And 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 he had done to Libnah and its king.
- Joshua 11:12Joshua 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 15:3Now 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 Samuel 22:19He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.
- 1 Samuel 27:8Now 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.)
- 1 Samuel 30:1On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.
- 1 Kings 20:30The 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 20:34Ben-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 a treaty with him and sent him away.
- Esther 3:1After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him to a position above all the princes who were with him.
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