1 Samuel 15:8 - The Scriptures 2009

⁸ And he caught Aḡaḡ sovereign of the Amalĕqites alive, and put under the ban 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And he took Agag the king of Amalec alive: but all the common people he slew with the edge of the sword.

1 Samuel 15:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 8:12

from Aram, and from Mo’aḇ, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalĕq, and from the spoil of Haḏaḏezer son of Reḥoḇ, sovereign of Tsoḇah.

1 Kings 20:30

And those that were left fled to Aphĕq, into the city, and a wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the men who were left. And Ben-Haḏaḏ fled and went into the city, into an inner room.

1 Chronicles 4:43

And they struck the rest of the Amalĕqites who had escaped, and dwelt there to this day.

Esther 3:1

After these events Sovereign Aḥashwĕrosh promoted Haman, son of Hammeḏatha the Aḡaḡite, and exalted him and seated him higher than all the princes with him.

Leviticus 27:29

‘No one under the ban, under the ban among men, is ransomed, but shall certainly be put to death.

Numbers 24:7

“He makes water flow from his buckets, and his seed is in many waters. His sovereign is higher than Aḡaḡ, and his reign is exalted.

Joshua 10:39

and captured it and its sovereign and all its cities. And they struck them with the edge of the sword and put all the people who were in it under the ban, he left no survivor. As he had done to Ḥeḇron, so he did to Deḇir and its sovereign, as he had done also to Liḇnah and its sovereign.

Joshua 11:12

And Yehoshua captured all the cities of those sovereigns, and all their sovereigns, and he struck them with the edge of the sword. He put them under the ban, as Mosheh the servant of יהוה commanded.

Joshua 8:23

But the sovereign of Ai they caught alive, and brought him to Yehoshua.

1 Samuel 15:20

And Sha’ul said to Shemu’ĕl, “I did obey the voice of יהוה, and I went on the way on which יהוה sent me, and brought back Aḡaḡ sovereign of Amalĕq, and I put Amalĕq under the ban.

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go, and you shall strike Amalĕq and put under the ban all that he has, and you shall not spare them, and put to death from man to woman, from infant to nursing child, from ox to sheep, from camel to donkey.’ ”

1 Samuel 22:19

And he struck Noḇ, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, from men even to women, from children even to nursing infants, and oxen and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

1 Samuel 30:1

And it came to be, when Dawiḏ and his men came to Tsiqlaḡ, on the third day, that the Amalĕqites had invaded the South and Tsiqlaḡ, and struck Tsiqlaḡ and burned it with fire.