7. And Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.
8. And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword.
9. But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.
10. The word of the Lord came to Samuel: