Hewed in pieces - This term is found only in this passage. Samuel thus executed the חרם chērem (1 Samuel 15:3), which Sa…

Samuel hewed Agag in pieces. —It has been suggested, with some probability, that these words refer to a peculiar form of …

And Samuel said, as your sword has made women childless
Or, "bereaved ^F19 " them, not of their children o…

Many think the bitterness of death is past when it has not truly gone; they put that evil day far out of mind, though it is actually very near.