Teks -- 1 Samuel 15:8 (NET)

15:8 He captured King Agag of the Amalekites alive, but he executed all Agag’s people with the sword.

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Wesley: 1Sa 15:8 - All

Whom he found. Now they paid dear for the sin of their ancestors. They were themselves guilty of idolatry and numberless sins, for which they deserved to be cut off. Yet when God would reckon with them, he fixes upon this as the ground of his quarrel.

JFB: 1Sa 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.

JFB: 1Sa 15:8-9 - he took Agag . . . alive

This was the common title of the Amalekite kings. He had no scruple about the apparent cruelty of it, for he made fierce and indiscriminate havoc of the people. But he spared Agag, probably to enjoy the glory of displaying so distinguished a captive, and, in like manner, the most valuable portions of the booty, as the cattle. By this wilful and partial obedience to a positive command [1Sa 15:3], complying with it in some parts and violating it in others, as suited his own taste and humor, Saul showed his selfish, arbitrary temper, and his love of despotic power, and his utter unfitness to perform the duties of a delegated king in Israel.

Defender: 1Sa 15:8 - destroyed all the people

This statement evidently applies only to the people of the particular Amalekite cities attacked by Saul. David later destroyed many of the Amalekites (1Sa 27:8, 1Sa 27:9; 1Sa 30:1, 1Sa 30:17), and Saul himself was eventually slain by an Amalekite (2Sa 1:5-13)."

TSK: 1Sa 15:8 - Agag // utterly

Agag : 1Sa 15:3; Num 24:7; 1Ki 20:30, 1Ki 20:34-42; Est 3:1

utterly : 1Sa 27:8, 1Sa 30:1; Jos 10:39, Jos 11:12

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Poole: 1Sa 15:8 - Agag // All the people

Saul spared

Agag either out of foolish pity for the goodliness of his person, which Josephus notes; or for his respect to his royal majesty, in the preservation of which he thought himself concerned; or for the glory of his triumph: compare 1Sa 15:12 .

All the people to wit, the body of the people, but not every individual person, as hath been showed. Universal particles are commonly thus understood, as is confessed.

Gill: 1Sa 15:8 - And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive // and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword

And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive,.... This name seems to be a common name of the kings of these people, as Pharaoh was of the Egyptians, see Num 24:2. When this king fell into the hands of Saul, he did not put him to death, as he should have done, but preserved him; for what reasons, see in the following verse:

and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword; that is, all that came in his way, or fell into his hands; all between Havilah and Shur; all excepting those that made their escape, for we after read of Amalekites, and that in large bodies, 1Sa 27:8.