⁹ But Saul and the people ^(A)spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the more valuable animals, the lambs, and everything that was good, and were unwilling to destroy them completely; but everything despicable and weak, that they completely destroyed.

¹⁵ Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for ^(A)the people spared the best of the sheep and oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God; but the rest we have completely destroyed.”