1 Samuel 15:8-10

New King James Version

^8 (A)He also took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and ^(B)utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. ⁹ But Saul and the people ^(C)spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.

Saul Rejected as King

¹⁰ Now the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying,