1 Samuel 15:8 - Revised Version 1885

⁸ And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And he took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, though he utterly destroyed all the rest of the people with the sword.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

Common English Bible

⁸ He captured Agag the Amalekite king alive, but Saul placed all the people under the ban, killing them with the sword.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And he apprehended Agag, the king of Amalek, alive. But all the common people he put to death with the edge of the sword.

1 Samuel 15:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 8:12

of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

1 Kings 20:30

But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.

1 Chronicles 4:43

And they smote the remnant of the Amalekites that escaped, and dwelt there, unto this day.

Esther 3:1

After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.

Leviticus 27:29

None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 24:7

Water shall flow from his buckets, And his seed shall be in many waters, And his king shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted.

Joshua 10:39

and he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to the king thereof.

Joshua 11:12

And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and he smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.

Joshua 8:23

And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

1 Samuel 15:20

And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 15:3

Now 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.

1 Samuel 22:19

And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen and asses and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

1 Samuel 30:1

And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid upon the South, and upon Ziklag, and had smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;