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 fatlings

General references

Bible References

The best

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.
Joshua 7:21
When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.

The fatlings

2 Samuel 6:13
And when those who were lifting the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, he made an offering of an ox and a fat young beast.

General references

Matthew 26:9
For we might have got much money for this and given it to the poor.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain