8He took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and all his people he totally destroyed with the sword.


In Context

5 Saul went to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the ravine.

6 Then he said to the Kenites, "Go away, leave the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you along with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.

7 Then Saul attacked the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, to the east of Egypt.

8 He took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and all his people he totally destroyed with the sword.

9 But Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs-everything that was good. These they were unwilling to destroy completely, but everything that was despised and weak they totally destroyed.

10 Then the word of the Lord came to Samuel:

1st Samuel 15:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:8And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:8And he took Agag the king of Amalec alive: but all the common people he slew with the edge of the sword.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:8And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:8And he took Agag the king of Amalek alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:8And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:8And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:8He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:8and he catcheth Agag king of Amalek alive, and all the people he hath devoted by the mouth of the sword;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:8And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.