1 Samuel 15:32

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30 Then he said, “I have sinned; yet ^ahonor me now, please, before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.”

31 So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul worshiped the Lord.

32 Then Samuel said, “Bring Agag king of the Amalekites here to me.” So Agag came to him cautiously. And Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”

33 But Samuel said, ^a“As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

34 Then Samuel went to ^aRamah, and Saul went up to his house at ^bGibeah of Saul.

35 And ^aSamuel went no more to see Saul until the day of his death. Nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul, and the Lord regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.

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1 Samuel 15:32

Agag came unto him delicately - The Septuagint have , trembling; the original, maadannoth , delicacies; probably ish , man, understood; a man of delights, a pleasure-taker: the Vulgate, pinguissimus et tremens , "very fat and trembling."

Surely the bitterness of death is past - Almost all the versions render this differently from ours. Surely death is bitter, is their general sense; and this seems to be the true meaning.

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