Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Agag

Name meaningroof; upper floor

1.

Flame, the usual title of the Amalekite kings, as “Pharaoh” was of the Egyptian.

2.

A king of the Amalekites referred to by Balaam (Num. 24:7). He lived at the time of the Exodus.

3.

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).

Agag in Nave’s Topical Bible3 references, arranged by theme

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