1 Samuel 15:9-11

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⁹However, Saul and the army spared Agag, along with the best of the flock, the cattle, the fatlings,^[a] and the lambs, as well as everything else that was of value.^[b] They were not willing to slaughter them. But they did slaughter everything that was despised^[c] and worthless.

¹⁰Then the Lord’s message came to Samuel: ¹¹“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do.” Samuel became angry and he cried out to the Lord all that night.

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1 Samuel 15:9 tn The Hebrew text is difficult here. We should probably read וְהַמַּשְׂמַנִּים (v^ehammasmannim, “the fat ones”) rather than the MT וְהַמִּשְׂנִים (v^ehammisnim, “the second ones”). However, if the MT is retained, the sense may be as the Jewish commentator Kimchi supposed: the second-born young, thought to be better than the firstlings. (For discussion see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 123-24.)
1 Samuel 15:9 tn Heb “good.”
1 Samuel 15:9 tc The MT has here the very odd form נְמִבְזָה (n^emivzah), but this is apparently due to a scribal error. The translation follows instead the Niphal participle נִבְזָה (nivzah).

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