1 Samuel 15:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁹ Saul and the troops spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, goats, cattle, and choice animals,  as well as the young rams and the best of everything else. They were not willing to destroy them, but they did destroy all the worthless and unwanted things.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, oxen, fatlings, lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them; but all that was undesirable or worthless they destroyed utterly.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ 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 everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

Common English Bible

⁹ Saul and the troops spared Agag along with the best sheep, cattle, fattened calves, lambs, and everything of value. They weren’t willing to put them under the ban; but anything that was despised or of no value they placed under the ban.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the flocks of sheep, and of the herds, and the garments, and the rams, and all that was beautiful, and they were not willing to destroy them. Yet truly, whatever was vile or worthless, these they demolished.

1 Samuel 15:9 Cross References

2 Samuel 6:13

When those carrying the ark of the Lord advanced six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

1 Kings 20:34

Then Ben-hadad said to him, ‘I restore to you the cities that my father took from your father,  and you may set up marketplaces for yourself in Damascus, like my father set up in Samaria.’ Ahab responded, ‘On the basis of this treaty, I release you.’ So he made a treaty with him and released him.

Matthew 26:9

‘This might have been sold for a great deal and given to the poor.’

Joshua 6:18

But keep yourselves from the things set apart, or you will be set apart for destruction. If you  take any of those things, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and make trouble for it.

Joshua 7:21

When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Babylon,  two and a half kilograms  of silver, and a bar of gold weighing half a kilogram,  I coveted them and took them.  You can see for yourself. They are concealed in the ground inside my tent, with the silver under the cloak.’

1 Samuel 15:10

Then the word of the Lord came to Samuel,

1 Samuel 15:15

Saul answered, ‘The troops brought them from the Amalekites and spared the best sheep, goats, and cattle in order to offer a sacrifice to the Lord your God,  but the rest we destroyed.’

1 Samuel 15:19

So why didn’t you obey the Lord? Why did you rush on the plunder  and do what was evil in the Lord’s sight? ’

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have.  Do not spare them. Kill men and women, infants and nursing babies, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.” ’

1 Samuel 28:18

You did not obey the Lord and did not carry out his burning anger against Amalek;  therefore the Lord has done this to you today.