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
Go and attack the Amalekites! Destroy them and all their possessions. Do not have any pity. Kill their men, women, children, and even their babies. Slaughter their cattle, sheep, camels, and donkeys.'
Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the spoils a quality Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them. I hid them in the earth in the middle of my tent.
The fatlings
2 Samuel 6:13
When those who carried the Ark of Jehovah walked six steps, David sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf.
General references
Matthew 26:9
This ointment could have been sold for much and the money given to the poor.