1 Samuel 15:9
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But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to destroy them, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.
In other translations
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to destroy them, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.
Hebrew words
וַיַּחְמֹלvaiyachmoland he had compassionH2550שָׁאוּלsha'ulSaulH7586וְהָעָםveha'amand the peopleH5971עַל־'al-onH5921אֲגָג'agagAgagH90וְעַל־ve'al-and onH5921מֵיטַבmeitav[the] best ofH4315הַצֹּאןhatzonthe sheepH6629וְהַבָּקָרvehabakarand the cattleH1241וְהַמִּשְׁנִיםvehamishnimand the secondH4932וְעַל־ve'al-and onH5921הַכָּרִיםhakarimthe lambsH3733וְעַל־ve'al-and onH5921כָּל־kol-allH3605הַטּוֹבhatovthe goodH2896וְלֹאvelo'and notH3808אָבוּ'avuthey were willingH14הַחֲרִימָםhacharimamto totally destroy themH2763וְכָל־vekholand allH3605הַמְּלָאכָהhamelakhahthe propertyH4399נְמִבְזָהnemivzahdespisedH5240וְנָמֵסvenamesand worthlessH4549אֹתָהּ'otah<obj.> itH853הֶחֱרִימוּ׃ פhecherimuthey totally destroyedH2763
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- 1 Samuel 15:15And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.Saul answered, “The troops brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we devoted to destruction.”
- 1 Samuel 15:3Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.Now 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 15:19Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the Lord, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the Lord?So why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you rush upon the plunder and do evil in the sight of the LORD?”
- Joshua 7:21When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
- 2 Samuel 6:13And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.When those carrying the ark of the LORD had advanced six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
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