SAUL AND AGAG #bible #story #god 1 Samuel chapter 15

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King Saul was instructed by God through the prophet Samuel to completely destroy the Amalekites, including everything in the land, not sparing anything that has life, men, women, infants, and animals 1. This decision was made based on the treatment the Amalekites gave the Israelites on their way out of Egypt. The Amalekites ambushed Israel and did despicable things to them. Israel cried out to God over the contemptible act of the Amalekites, and God rescued his people but still archived his plan of damnation for the land of Amalekites at a time more appropriate according to his design.
Prophet Samuel gave the message to King Saul in first person, quoting verbatim how the Lord spoke to him. The Lord was going to punish the Amalekites, but he had the intentions of using an earthly vessel which King Saul was the administrative head over the nation of Israel. Saul was saddled with executive and combat obligations. He was commander of the federal republic, who after deliberating over combatant strategies, led Israeli troops to the war front. King Saul set out to war with his troops, and the land of Amalekites was wiped out. He went to the outskirts of the country borders to look for Amalekites who might be posing as refugees and immigrants. Mothers wailed in their near-death situations as they watched their children being put to the sword. Infants and suckling were slaughtered alongside the breast from which they sucked. There was a total massacre of the land as instructed by God, but King Saul made a few inadvertences. Saul spared Agag, the king of the Amalekites, and the best of sheep and cattle. They were unwilling to destroy these ones because of selfish agenda. King Saul let Agag live to his own glory. He captured Agag alive so Israelites and kings of other nations may be terrified by his combatant ability