The fatlings - The present Hebrew text cannot be rendered this way. It can only mean “the second best” (compare the margin), that is, sheep …

Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen. —It would seem that Saul carried out the awful curse to the letter (wit…

And Saul and all the people spared Agag
Perhaps Saul made the motion to spare him, and the people agreed to it; it ma…

The sentence of condemnation against the Amalekites had been issued long before (Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 25:19), but they…