Agag:
(flame) possibly the title of the kings of Amalek, like Pharaoh of Egypt. One king of this name is mentioned in Numbers 24:7 and another in 1 Samuel 15:8, 9, 20, 32. The latter was the king of the Amalekites, whom Saul spared contrary to Jehovah's well‐known will (Exodus 17:14; 25:17). For this act of disobedience Samuel was commissioned to declare to Saul his rejection, and he himself sent for Agag and cut him in pieces. (B.C. about 1070) SEE [SAMUEL]. Haman is called the AGAGITE in Esther 3:1; 3:10; 8:3; 8:5. The Jews consider him a descendant of Agag the Amalekite.
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