1 Samuel 15:8

In 11 translations

BSB

He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.

KJV

And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

WEB

He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

ASV

And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

LSV

and he catches Agag king of Amalek alive, and he has devoted all the people by the mouth of the sword;

YLT

and he catcheth Agag king of Amalek alive, and all the people he hath devoted by the mouth of the sword;

DBY

And he took Agag the king of Amalek alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

DRC

And he took Agag the king of Amalec alive: but all the common people he slew with the edge of the sword.

GNV

And tooke Agag the King of the Amalekites aliue, and destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

JPS

And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

LXXE

And he took Agag the king of Amalec alive, and he slew all the people and Hierim with the edge of the sword.This is strangely given as the rendering of החריס 'he destroyed.'

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WLC

וַיִּתְפֹּ֛שׂ אֶת־אֲגַ֥ג מֶֽלֶךְ־עֲמָלֵ֖ק חָ֑י וְאֶת־כָּל־הָעָ֖ם הֶחֱרִ֥ים לְפִי־חָֽרֶב׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ συνέλαβε τὸν ʼΑγὰγ βασιλέα ʼΑμαλὴκ ζῶντα, καὶ πάντα τὸν λαὸν καὶ Ἱερὶμ ἀπέκτεινεν ἐν στόματι ῥομφαίας.

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• 1 Samuel 30:1On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.
• Esther 3:1After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him to a position above all the princes who were with him.
• Numbers 24:7Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will have abundant water. His king will be greater than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.
• Joshua 10:39And they captured Debir, its king, and all its villages. They put them to the sword and devoted to destruction everyone in the city, leaving no survivors. Joshua did to Debir and its king as he had done to Hebron and…
• 1 Kings 20:34–42Ben-hadad said to him, “I will restore the cities my father took from your father; you may set up your own marketplaces in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” “By this treaty I release you,” Ahab replied. So he…
• 1 Samuel 15:3Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
• 1 Kings 20:30The rest of them fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled to the city and hid in an inner room.
• Joshua 11:12Joshua captured all these kings and their cities and put them to the sword. He devoted them to destruction, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded.
• 1 Samuel 27:8–9Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.) Whenever David attacked a territory, he…

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