Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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 every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
The best
The fatlings
General references
Bible References
The best
1 Samuel 15:3
Now go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have. Do not spare them. Kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Babylon, 200 silver shekels, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, I coveted them and took them. You can see for yourself. They are concealed in the ground inside my tent, with the money under the cloak.”
The fatlings
2 Samuel 6:13
When those carrying the ark of the Lord advanced six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
General references
Matthew 26:9
“This might have been sold for a great deal and given to the poor.”