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- Saul mobilizes his army and attacks the Amalekites, but instead of total annihilation, he spares King Agag and keeps the best of the livestock, justifying this as spoils to be used for sacrifices to God.
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May 25, 2004 · But Saul does not spare one Amalekite child; he spares Agag, the king of the Amalekites. Saul does not disobey God because he is so compassionate, so caring, so kind. He readily slaughters every Amalekite man, woman, and child, save one – the king.
15 Saul said, “The soldiers took them from the Amalekites. They saved the best sheep and cattle to burn as sacrifices to the Lord your God. But we destroyed everything else.”
7 Then Saul attacked the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border 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[b] and lambs—everything that was good.
3. (7-9) Saul attacks the Amalekites. And Saul attacked the Amalekites, from Havilah all the way to Shur, which is east of Egypt. He also took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
8 He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and destroyed all the people with the sword. 9 But Saul and the people did not kill Agag and the best of the sheep, the cattle, the fat animals ready to be killed, the lambs, and all that was good.
Mar 9, 2022 · Undermining Saul’s Victory. The tension in the story between Saul’s military success and his religious failure masks the story’s literary development. It is probable that YHWH had no role in the older version of Saul’s war against Amalek, before it was reworked by the redactor of 1Samuel 15.
Saul's War with the Amalekites, and Conquest of Them. The Antiquities of the Jews — Flavius Josephus. 1. Now Samuel came unto Saul, and said to him, that he was sent by God to put him in mind that God had preferred him before all others, and ordained him king; that he therefore ought to be obedient to him, and to submit to his authority, as ...
