References (6)
Water shall flow from his pots,
and his seed shall be in many waters,
and his king shall be higher than Agag [perhaps a title, similar to pharaoh; Haman was an Agagite, see , later Samuel kills a king named Agag, see ; the Greek translation Septuagint has Gog, cf. ],
and his kingdom shall be exalted.
And he took Agag, king of the Amalekites, alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and oxen and the two-year-olds and the lambs of the males and all that was good, and did not utterly destroy them, but everything worthless and weak they utterly destroyed.
And Saul said to Samuel, "I have obeyed the voice of the Lord (Yahweh) and have gone the way the Lord (Yahweh) sent me, and have captured Agag, king of the Amalekites, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
And Samuel said, "Bring Agag, king of the Amalekites, to me." And Agag came to him in chains. And Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is relentless."
But Samuel said,
"As your sword has made women childless,
so shall your mother be childless among women." And Samuel cut Agag into pieces before the Lord (Yahweh) in Gilgal.
