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1 Samuel 15:31-33
Common English Bible
1 Samuel 15:31-33
Common English Bible
31 So Samuel went back with Saul, and Saul worshipped the Lord.
32 “Bring me Agag the Amalekite king,” Samuel said.
Agag came to him in chains, asking, “Would death have been as bitter as this is?”[a]
33 Samuel said, “Just as your sword left women without their children, now your mother will be childless among women.” Then Samuel cut Agag to pieces in the Lord’s presence at Gilgal.
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- 1 Samuel 15:32 LXX; Heb uncertain
1 Samuel 15:31-33
New International Version
1 Samuel 15:31-33
New International Version
31 So Samuel went back with Saul, and Saul worshiped the Lord.
32 Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites.”
Agag came to him in chains.[a] And he thought, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”
33 But Samuel said,
“As your sword has made women childless,
so will your mother be childless among women.”(A)
And Samuel put Agag to death before the Lord at Gilgal.
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 15:32 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
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