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  • Then Samuel called Agag unto him, and hewed the unarmed man in pieces, and declared he would see Saul no more.

    Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872

  • Revelations, they said, were made them, that the sectarian and heretical army, together with Agag, meaning Cromwell, was delivered into their hands.

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell David Hume 1743

  • Giddy with victory, he had led the triumphant army and its spoils up to Gilgal, driving the flocks of captured sheep to sacrifice to the Lord, dragging Agag, the captured Amalekite king, in chains.

    A Night Visit to Endor « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • I went on the mission that the Lord sent me on, and I captured Agag the king of Amalek, and I destroyed Amalek.

    The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010

  • The Bible tells us that Saul defeated the Amalekites, but he captured Agag, the king of the Amalekites, and kept him alive.

    Surviving in an Angry World Charles F. Stanley 2010

  • For all that be went forward as a certain Agag once did, and it was many minutes before he could see a curtain glowing blood-red in the light behind the two lamps, at the top of a flight of ten stone steps.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • But I would have to go to work subtly and delicately; Spring's pal Agag would have nothing on me.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • When Agag, the captured king of the slaughtered Amalekites, is brought to the prophet Samuel, he asks for mercy: "Surely the bitterness of death is past."

    Marty Kaplan: The Virtue of Hate 2009

  • But Samuel "hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal."

    Marty Kaplan: The Virtue of Hate 2009

  • In fact, it was for sparing Agag that Saul was rebuked by the Lord, and lost his kingdom.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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