Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
New American Standard Bible
He captured
King James Version
And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
Holman Bible
He captured Agag
International Standard Version
He captured alive Agag king of Amalek, but he completely destroyed all the people, executing them with swords.
American Standard Version
And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
Amplified
He captured Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, though he totally destroyed all [the rest of] the people with the sword.
Bible in Basic English
He took Agag, king of the Amalekites, prisoner, and put all the people to the sword without mercy.
Darby Translation
And he took Agag the king of Amalek alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
Julia Smith Translation
And he will seize Agag, king of Amalek, living, and be exterminated all the people with the mouth of the sword.
King James 2000
And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He captured Agag the king of Amalek alive, but all the people he utterly destroyed with the {edge} of the sword.
Modern King James verseion
And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive. And he completely destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
NET Bible
He captured King Agag of the Amalekites alive, but he executed all Agag's people with the sword.
New Heart English Bible
He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
The Emphasized Bible
And he took Agag, king of Amalek, alive, - but, all the people, devoted he to destruction at the edge of the sword.
Webster
And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
World English Bible
He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
Youngs Literal Translation
and he catcheth Agag king of Amalek alive, and all the people he hath devoted by the mouth of the sword;
Themes
Agag » King of the amalekites » Killed » By samuel
Agency » In executing judgments
Amalekites, the » saul » Massacred
Covetousness » Instances of » Saul, in sparing, agag and the booty
Kings » Who reigned over all israel » saul
Repentance » Instances of » Saul, at the rebuke of samuel for not destroying the amalekites
Retaliation » Instances of » The israelites on the amalekites
Rulers' » Wicked » Instances of » Saul, sparing agag and the best of the booty
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Samuel 15:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Defeats The Amalekites
7 And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou go to Shur, that is before Egypt. 8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. 9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. But everything that was vile and refuse, that they dest
Cross References
1 Samuel 30:1
And it came to pass, when David and his men came 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,
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.
Esther 3:1
After these things king Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the rulers that were with him.
Joshua 10:39
And he took it, and the king of it, and all the cities of it. And they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were in it. He left none remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir
Joshua 11:12
And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, Joshua took, and he smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of LORD commanded.
1 Samuel 15:3
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
1 Samuel 27:8-9
And David and his men went up, and made a raid upon the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for those [nations] were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old as thou go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.
1 Kings 20:30
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city, and the wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand men who were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
1 Kings 20:34-42
And [Ben-hadad] said to him, The cities which my father took from thy father I will restore, and thou shall make streets for thee in Damascus as my father made in Samaria. And I, [said Ahab], will let thee go with this covenant. So