1 Samuel 15:8 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.”
1 Samuel 15:8 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
1 Samuel 15:8 in 6 Bible Translations
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1 Samuel 15:8 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.”
1 Samuel 15:8 — World English Bible
1 Samuel 15:8 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. ”
1 Samuel 15:8 — American Standard Version
1 Samuel 15:8 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“and he catcheth Agag king of Amalek alive, and all the people he hath devoted by the mouth of the sword;”
1 Samuel 15:8 — Young's Literal Translation
1 Samuel 15:8 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“And he took Agag the king of Amalek alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. ”
1 Samuel 15:8 — Darby Translation
1 Samuel 15:8 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“And tooke Agag the King of the Amalekites aliue, and destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.”
1 Samuel 15:8 — Geneva Bible
1 Samuel 15:8 in Context — 1 Samuel 15
6 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
9 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.
10 Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel, saying,
What Does 1 Samuel 15:8 Mean?
1 Samuel 15:8 is a verse from the Book of 1 Samuel, part of the Old Testament. It appears in 1 Samuel chapter 15. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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