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Selected Verse: 1 Samuel 15:7 - King James

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1Sa 15:7 King James And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
HE SPARES AGAG AND THE BEST OF THE SPOIL. (Sa1 15:7-9)

Saul smote the Amalekites--His own view of the proper and expedient course to follow was his rule, not the command of God.
 
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7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
9 But 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 would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.