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 therefore go and smite the Amalekites, and only destroy ye all that pertaineth unto them, and see thou have no compassion on them. But slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, and ox, sheep, camel and ass.'"
Joshua 7:21
I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundredth sicles of silver, and a tongue of gold of fifty sicles weight: and I coveted them, and I took them. And behold they lie hid in the earth in my tent and the silver thereunder."
The fatlings
2 Samuel 6:13
And ever, when they that bare the Ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he offered an ox and a fat sheep.
General references
Matthew 26:9
This ointment might have been well sold, and given to the poor."