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
Now go and strike Amalek, and exterminate all which is to him, and thou shalt not spare to him; and kill from man even to woman, from child even to suckling, from ox and even to sheep, from camel and even to ass.
Joshua 7:21
And I shall see in the plunder a wide cloak of Shinar, a good one, and two hundred shekels of silver and one tongue of gold of fifty shekels from its weight, and I shall desire them, and shall take them, and behold them hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

The fatlings

2 Samuel 6:13
And it will be when they lifting up the ark of Jehovah went six steps, and he will sacrifice oxen and fat things.

General references

Matthew 26:9
For this perfumed oil could have been sold for much, and have been given to the poor.