1 Samuel 15:9

Overview - 1 Samuel 15
Samuel sends Saul to destroy Amalek.
Saul favours the Kenites.
He spares Agag and the best of the spoil.
10 Samuel denounces unto Saul God's rejection of him for his disobedience.
24 Saul's humiliation.
32 Samuel kills Agag.
34 Samuel and Saul part.
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1 Samuel 15:9  (King James Version)
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and 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: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
 


the best
1 Samuel 15:3 1 Samuel 15:15 1 Samuel 15:19 ; Joshua 7:21

the fatlings
or, the second sort.
2 Samuel 6:13