1 Samuel 15:9

Free Bible Version

Saul and his army spared Agag, together with the best sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and everything else that was any good. They didn't want to destroy those, but they completely destroyed all that was unwanted and worthless.

Cross References

2 Samuel 6:13

After those carrying the Ark of the Lord had taken six steps, he sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf.

1 Kings 20:34

Ben-hadad said to him, “I will return the towns my father took from your father, and you can organize your own places for trade in Damascus, like my father did in Samaria.” “By making this agreement I set you free,” Ahab replied. He made a treaty with Ben-hadad and let him go.

Matthew 26:9

“This perfume could've been sold for a lot of money and given to the poor!”

Joshua 6:18

But stay away from everything set apart for the Lord, for if you were to take anything you too would be liable to be destroyed, and you would also bring disaster on the camp of Israel.

Joshua 7:21

Among the plunder I saw a beautiful cloak from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels. I really wanted them, so I took them. They're hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver buried deeper.”

1 Samuel 15:10

The Lord sent a message to Samuel, saying,

1 Samuel 15:15

“The army brought them from the Amalekites,” Saul replied. “They spared the best sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the Lord your God, but we completely destroyed the rest.”

1 Samuel 15:19

Why didn't you do what the Lord ordered? Why did you swoop down on the plunder and do what was evil in the Lord's sight?”

1 Samuel 15:3

Go and attack the Amalekites and exterminate all of them. Don't spare anyone, but kill every man, woman, child, and baby; every ox, sheep, camel, and donkey.”

1 Samuel 28:18

The Lord has done this to you today because you did not do what the Lord commanded and you did not execute his furious anger on the Amalekites.