1 Samuel 15:33
Samuel replied, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” Then Samuel chopped Agag to pieces before Yahweh at Gilgal.
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34Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house at Gibeah of Saul.
Cross References
Genesis 9:6Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, 1 for it was in the image of God that he made man.
Exodus 21:24an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,
Numbers 25:7When Phinehas son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saw that, he rose up from among the community and took a spear in his hand.
1 Samuel 10:8Go down before me to Gilgal. Then I will come down to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Wait seven days until I come to you and show you what you must do.”
Isaiah 34:6The sword of Yahweh is dripping with blood and covered with fat, 1 dripping with the blood of lambs and goats, covered with the fat of the kidneys of rams. 1 For Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 1
Matthew 7:2For with the judgment you judge, you will be judged, and with the measure that you measure, it will be measured out to you.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 15:33-35
Agag Slain. ( b. c. 1065.) 32 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. 33 And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal. 34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul. 35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless… Read the whole commentary →