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Agag

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Another king of the Amalekites whom Saul spared unlawfully, but whom Samuel on his arrival in the camp of Saul ordered, in retributive justice (Judg. 1), to be brought out and cut in pieces (1 Sam. 15:8-33. Comp. Ex. 17:11; Num. 14:45).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 5 verses

1 Samuel: 15:8, 15:9, 15:20, 15:32, 15:33

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.