1 Samuel 15:32-34

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³²Then Samuel said, ‘Bring Agag king of the Amalekites here to me.’ And Agag came to him haltingly.^[a] Agag said, ‘Surely this is the bitterness of death.’^[b] ³³But Samuel said,

‘As your sword has made women childless,
so your mother shall be childless among women.’

And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

³⁴Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul.

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Footnotes

1 Samuel 15:32 Cn Compare Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
1 Samuel 15:32 Q Ms Gk: MT Surely the bitterness of death is past

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