From the Blue Letter Bible

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1Sa 15:9 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

the best		1Sa 15:3,15,19; Jos 7:21
the fatlings		or, the second sort. 2Sa 6:13

Correlating Passages

the best

	1Sa 15:3	Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
	1Sa 15:15	And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
	1Sa 15:19	Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
	Jos 7:21	When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they [are] hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

the fatlings

2Sa 6:13

And it was [so], that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.

Return to Top

Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)

Scott, Thomas. "1 Samuel 15:9," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/1Sa/15/9.html>.

Search the Bible

Search the BLB

Featured Items

Today's Items:

Items of Interest: