Bible Person
Meaning: roof; upper floor · Male · 5 cross references
Agag is the Amalekite king whom Saul spares against God's command and whom Samuel finally executes. He stands at the center of one of the clearest biblical confrontations between partial obedience and true submission to the Lord. First appears in 1 Sam 15:8.1
AI summary: Agag matters because the cross references present him as the spared enemy king whose survival exposes Saul's disobedience. By preserving Agag and the best spoil, Saul reveals that his obedience is selective and self-serving, which leads directly to prophetic rejection of his kingship. Samuel's execution of Agag then makes the seriousness of the command unmistakable. Taken together, the material presents Agag as the captured Amalekite king whose spared life becomes the occasion for Saul's downfall.1
Central Figure
Agag
Meaning: roof; upper floor
Another king of the Amalekites whom Saul spared unlawfully, but whom Samuel on his arrival in the camp of Saul ordered, in retributive justice (Judg.
Another king of the Amalekites whom Saul spared unlawfully, but whom Samuel on his arrival in the camp of Saul ordered, in retributive justice (Judg. 1), to be brought out and cut in pieces (1 Sam. 15:8-33. Comp. Ex. 17:11; Num. 14:45). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.