He alone who knows the loss incurred by the disobedience of His people. Saul proved a failure. There is something pathetic in the way the Lord addressed Samuel: "It repenteth Me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following Me, and hath not performed My commandments. There was nothing ambiguous in the commandment given to the king about his dealings with the Amalekites. He was to "utterly destroy" them and their possessions. Many years before, Jehovah had said that the remembrance of Amalek was to be blotted out from under heaven Deut.
Deuteronomy Although Jehovah is slow to execute judgment—enters this place with reluctant step—the time was now come. The cup was full.
Saul, instead of doing as he was commanded, spared Agag the Amalekite kin g, and also spared "the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. It was in vain for him to assure Samuel that he had performed the commandment of the Lord—the bleating of the sheep gave the lie to the statement.
If in another day the dumb ass spake and forbade the madness of the prophet, so at this time the poor sheep in their innocent bleating convicted the disobedient king who, instead of judging himself, made excuses, and meanly blamed the people. You may even be fooled into thinking that they are better than what God commands!
The story of Saul and King Agag speaks powerfully to this issue, providing a lesson that we should examine ourselves by. In 1 Samuel 1 Samuel Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
As happened so often in those days, Saul and his army didn't follow that command to the letter:. But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed" 1 Samuel 1 Samuel [8] And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 10 months ago. Active 2 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 3k times. As recorded in I Sh'muel chapter 15 , Shaul , the king, was told by the prophet to destroy the nation of Amalek from man to woman, youngster to suckling, ox to sheep, camel to donkey.
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Samuel told Saul to wait for him for 7 days. Samuel didn't come after 7 days. Can't be contacted. Didn't have his cellphone with him. And Samuel were mad at Saul? If I were Saul, I would be the one that's mad at Samuel. You came late. Text: Extra info text:. Do you have authorship info? Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary. Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible.
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges. The meaning of the term Agag is unknown. Utterly destroyed all the people. In 1Chronicles their complete, and probably final, annihilation is recorded.
But covetousness seems to have suggested the preservation of the choicest cattle, and pride probably induced the Hebrew king to save Agag alive, that he might show the people his royal captive. Benson Commentary 1 Samuel Would not utterly destroy them — As they had been commanded of God, but took them as a prey to themselves. Every thing that was vile, they destroyed — All that was not worth the keeping. Thus they obeyed God as far as they could, without inconvenience and loss to themselves, which is a striking instance of the baseness of human nature, when governed by covetousness, or any such like grovelling affection or appetite.
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