1Sa 15:8-9, 32-33 | ESV | STEP | And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword .

1 Samuel 15:8-9

8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive ^aand devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword. 9 ^bBut Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew term is uncertain} and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.

1 Samuel 15:32-33

32 Then Samuel said, “Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.” And Agag came to him cheerfully. ^{▼▼Or haltingly (compare Septuagint); the Hebrew is uncertain} Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.” 33 And Samuel said, ^e“As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord ^fin Gilgal.