1 Samuel 15:32

And Samuel said, Bring me Agag the king of Amalec: and Agag came to him trembling; and Agag said + 15:32 Or, 'If it be thus, bitter is death.' Is death thus bitter?

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

In Context

31So Samuel turned back after Saul, and he worshipped the Lord.

33And Samuel said to Agag, As your sword has bereaved women of their children, so shall your mother be made childless among women: and Samuel killed Agag before the Lord in Galgal.

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Cross References

Judges 8:11And Gedeon went up by the way of them that lived in tents, eastward of Nabai and Jegebal; and he struck the host, and the host was secure.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 15:25-32

Saul's Dethronement Foretold. ( b. c. 1065.) 24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord , and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. 25 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord . 26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the Lord , and the Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel. 27 And as Samuel turned about to go away,… Read the whole commentary →

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