Agag

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Agag: flame, the usual title of the Amalekite kings, as "Pharaoh" was of the Egyptian.

  1. A king of the Amalekites referred to by Balaam (Numbers 24:7). He lived at the time of the Exodus.
  2. Another king of the Amalekites whom Saul spared unlawfully, but whom Samuel on his arrival in the camp of Saul ordered, in retributive justice (Judges 1), to be brought out and cut in pieces (1 Samuel 15:8-33. Comp. Exodus 17:11; Numbers 14:45).
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