1 Samuel 15:33

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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Barnes' Notes

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1 Samuel 15:33

Hewed in pieces - Only found in this passage. Samuel thus executed the chērem I Samuel 15:3 which Saul had violated, and so both saved the nation from the guilt of a broken oath, and gave a final example to Saul, but apparently in vain, of uncompromising obedience to the commandments of God. There is something awful in the majesty of the prophet rising above and eclipsing that of the king (compare I Kings 21:20; Jeremiah 38:14 ff; Daniel 2:46; Daniel 4:27).

**Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Samuel 15:33:**

Leviticus 27:28
Judges 8:20
Daniel 2:5
Hosea 4:15
Hosea 9:12
Matthew 24:45-51

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