Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

He took Agag, king of the Amalekites, prisoner, and put all the people to the sword without mercy.

New American Standard Bible

He captured Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

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 king of Amalek alive, but he completely destroyed all the rest of the people with the sword.

International Standard Version

He captured alive Agag king of Amalek, but he completely destroyed all the people, executing them with swords.

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.

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.

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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And he took
תּפשׂ 
Taphas 
Usage: 65

H90
אגג 
'Agag 
Usage: 8

the king
מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

of the Amalekites
עמלק 
`Amaleq 
Usage: 35

חי 
Chay 
Usage: 502

all the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

with the edge
פּה 
Peh 
Usage: 497

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Israel Defeats The Amalekites

7 And Saul made an attack on the Amalekites from Havilah on the road to Shur, which is before Egypt. 8 He took Agag, king of the Amalekites, prisoner, and put all the people to the sword without mercy. 9 But Saul and the people did not put Agag to death, and they kept the best of the sheep and the oxen and the fat beasts and the lambs, and whatever was good, not desiring to put them to the curse: but everything which was bad and of no use they put to the curse.

Cross References

1 Samuel 30:1

Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made an attack on the South and on Ziklag, and had overcome Ziklag and put it on fire;

Numbers 24:7

Peoples will be in fear before his strength, his arm will be on great nations: his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom made great in honour.

Esther 3:1

After these things, by the order of the king, Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, was lifted up and given a position of honour and a higher place than all the other captains who were with him.

Joshua 10:39

And he took it, with its king and all its towns: and he put them to the sword, giving every person in it to the curse; all were put to death: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king.

Joshua 11:12

And all the towns of these kings, and all the kings, Joshua took, and put them to the sword: he gave them up to the curse, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had said.

1 Samuel 15:3

Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.

1 Samuel 27:8-9

And David and his men went up and made attacks on the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites; for these were the people who were living in the land from Telam on the way to Shur, as far as Egypt.

1 Kings 20:30

But the rest went in flight to Aphek, into the town, where a wall came down on the twenty-seven thousand who were still living. And Ben-hadad went in flight into the town, into an inner room.

1 Kings 20:34-42

And Ben-hadad said to him, The towns my father took from your father I will give back; and you may make streets for yourself in Damascus as my father did in Samaria. And as for me, at the price of this agreement you will let me go. So he made an agreement with him and let him go.

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