1 Samuel 15:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 Sam 30:1 : 1 And it came to pass, when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
  • Esth 3:1 : 1 After these things, King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.
  • Num 24:7 : 7 He shall pour the water from his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
  • Josh 10:39 : 39 And he took it and its king and all its cities; they struck them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed all the people who were in it. He left none remaining, as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, as he had done to Libnah and its king.
  • Josh 11:12 : 12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, Joshua took, and struck them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.
  • 1 Sam 15:3 : 3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
  • 1 Kgs 20:30 : 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
  • 1 Kgs 20:34-42 : 34 And Benhadad said to him, The cities, which my father took from your father, I will restore; and you shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send you away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away. 35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbor in the word of the LORD, Strike me, I pray you. And the man refused to strike him. 36 Then he said to him, Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as you are departed from me, a lion shall slay you. And as soon as he departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him. 37 Then he found another man, and said, Strike me, I pray you. And the man struck him, so that in striking he wounded him. 38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face. 39 And as the king passed by, he cried to the king: and he said, Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he is missing, then shall your life be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver. 40 And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said to him, So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it. 41 And he hastened, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel recognized him that he was of the prophets. 42 And he said to him, Thus says the LORD, Because you have let go out of your hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.
  • 1 Sam 27:8-9 : 8 And David and his men went up and invaded the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for those nations were the inhabitants of the land from long ago, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt. 9 And David struck the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothes, and returned and came to Achish.

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  • 1 Sam 15:9-10
    2 verses
    87%

    9But 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 were not willing to utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

    10Then came the word of the LORD to Samuel, saying,

  • 1 Sam 15:15
    84%

    15And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

  • 1 Sam 15:2-7
    6 verses
    84%

    2Thus says the LORD of hosts, I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him on the way, when he came up from Egypt.

    3Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

    4And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot soldiers, and ten thousand men of Judah.

    5And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and lay in wait in the valley.

    6And Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, get down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

    7And Saul struck the Amalekites from Havilah until you come to Shur, which is opposite Egypt.

  • 1 Sam 15:18-21
    4 verses
    83%

    18And the LORD sent you on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.

    19Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but flew upon the spoil, and did evil in the sight of the LORD?

    20And Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

    21But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    80%

    48He gathered an army, struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel from those who plundered them.

  • 1 Sam 15:32-33
    2 verses
    79%

    32Then said Samuel, Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came to him delicately, and Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

    33And Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

  • Deut 13:15
    76%

    15You shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

  • Exod 17:13
    75%

    13And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    74%

    9And David struck the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothes, and returned and came to Achish.

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    74%

    43And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that had escaped, and dwelt there to this day.

  • 1 Sam 28:18
    74%

    18Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD, nor execute his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you today.

  • Deut 25:17-19
    3 verses
    73%

    17Remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you came forth out of Egypt;

    18How he met you on the way and attacked your rear, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.

    19Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget it.

  • Num 24:20
    72%

    20And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end shall be that he perish forever.

  • 1 Sam 22:19
    72%

    19And Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing infants, and oxen, and donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

  • Gen 14:7
    72%

    7And they returned and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelled in Hazezontamar.

  • Judg 21:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10And the congregation sent there twelve thousand of their best men, and commanded them, saying, Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, including the women and the children.

    11And this is what you shall do: You shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.

  • Josh 11:12
    71%

    12And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, Joshua took, and struck them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.

  • 1 Sam 30:2
    71%

    2And had taken the women captives that were there: they killed none, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.

  • Deut 20:13
    71%

    13And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

  • Josh 10:37
    70%

    37And they took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword—its king, all its cities, and all the people who were in it; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon, but utterly destroyed it and all the people who were in it.

  • Josh 8:26
    70%

    26For Joshua did not draw his hand back, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

  • 1 Sam 14:32
    70%

    32The people rushed on the spoil, took sheep, oxen, and calves, slaughtered them on the ground, and the people ate them with the blood.

  • Deut 20:16-17
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    70%

    16But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes:

    17But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you:

  • Deut 31:4
    70%

    4And the LORD shall do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to the land of them, whom he destroyed.

  • Exod 17:8
    70%

    8Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

  • Josh 10:35
    70%

    35They took it on that day and struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the people who were in it he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.

  • 2 Sam 1:9
    70%

    9He said to me again, Stand, please, upon me, and kill me: for anguish has come upon me, because my life is still in me.

  • 1 Sam 14:34
    70%

    34Then Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, 'Bring every man his ox and every man his sheep, and slaughter them here, and eat, and do not sin against the LORD by eating with the blood.'" So all the people brought every man his ox with him that night and slaughtered them there.

  • Num 21:35
    70%

    35So they struck him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.

  • Deut 3:6
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    6And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon, king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.

  • Josh 10:39
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    39And he took it and its king and all its cities; they struck them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed all the people who were in it. He left none remaining, as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, as he had done to Libnah and its king.

  • 2 Sam 1:15
    70%

    15And David called one of the young men and said, Go near, and strike him. And he smote him that he died.

  • Deut 2:34
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    34And we took all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining.

  • Josh 8:23
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    23And the king of Ai they took alive and brought him to Joshua.