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31 Samuel followed Saul back, and Saul worshiped the Lord. 32 Then Samuel shouted, “Bring me King Agag of Amalek!”

Agag came in chains,[a] and he was saying to himself, “Surely they won't kill me now.”[b]

33 But Samuel said, “Agag, you have snatched children from their mothers' arms and killed them. Now your mother will be without children.” Then Samuel chopped Agag to pieces at the place of worship in Gilgal.

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Footnotes

  1. 15.32 in chains: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 15.32 Surely … now: Hebrew; one ancient translation “It would have been better to die in battle!”

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