Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

He captured Agag the king of Amalek alive, but all the people he utterly destroyed with the {edge} of the sword.

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.

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.

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

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Context Readings

Israel Defeats The Amalekites

7 Then Saul defeated [the] Amalekites from Havilah as one goes to Shur which [is] {east of} Egypt. 8 He captured Agag the king of Amalek alive, but all the people he utterly destroyed with the {edge} of the sword. 9 However, Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and the cattle and the second [best] of the young fatlings and {all that was valuable}; they were not willing to utterly destroy them. But all the possessions that were despised or worthless, they utterly destroyed.

Cross References

1 Samuel 30:1

{Now} when David and his men came [to] Ziklag on the third day, [the] Amalekites had raided [the] Negev and Ziklag. When they attacked Ziklag, they burned it with fire.

Numbers 24:7

He will pour water from his buckets, and his offspring [will be] like many waters; his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.

Esther 3:1

After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and he exalted him and set {his position} above all the officials who [were] with him.

Joshua 10:39

and he captured it and its king and all its cities, and they struck them with {the the edge of the sword}, and they utterly destroyed all the people that [were] in it; he left behind no survivor, just as he had done to Hebron. Thus he did to Debir and its king what he had done to Libnah and its king.

Joshua 11:12

And Joshua captured all the cities of these kings, and all their kings, and he utterly destroyed them with {the edge of the sword}, as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.

1 Samuel 15:3

So then, go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that is his! You must not spare him, but kill both man and woman, both child and nursing infant, both ox and sheep, both camel and donkey.'"

1 Samuel 27:8-9

Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites, for they had been living [in] the land for a long time {in the direction of} Shur and {as far as} the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 20:30

Then those who remained fled to Aphek, to the city, and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who had remained, so Ben-Hadad fled and went to the innermost rooms of the city.

1 Kings 20:34-42

[Ben-Hadad] said to him, "The cities which my father took from your father I shall return. You may set up streets with stalls for yourself in Damascus just as my father set up in Samaria." [Then Ahab said], "{On these terms} I will let you go," So he made a covenant with him and let him go.

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