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32 Then Samuel said, “Bring Agag the king of Amalek out to me!” Agag came to him confidently,[a] for Agag thought, “Surely the bitterness of death is over.”[b]

33 Samuel said,

“Just as your sword bereaved women,
    so will your mother be bereaved among women!”

Then Samuel hacked Agag to pieces in the presence of Yahweh at Gilgal.

34 Then Samuel went to Ramah and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul. 35 Samuel did not see Saul again[c] until the day of his death, but Samuel mourned over Saul, and Yahweh regretted that he made Saul king over Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 15:32 Or “trembling”; literally “in chains/bonds” (HALOT 609 s.v. 2); the meaning here is uncertain (LXX has “trembling”)
  2. 1 Samuel 15:32 Literally “has turned aside”; other English versions follow the LXX and Peshitta and omit “has turned aside,” reading “Surely the bitterness of death!”
  3. 1 Samuel 15:35 Literally “did not add to see Saul”