“And hee tooke Agag the king of the Amalekites aliue, and vtterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
15:8 All - Whom he found. Now they paid dear for the sin of their ancestors. They were themselves guilty of idolatry and numberless sins, for which they deserved to be cut off. Yet when God would reckon with them, he fixes upon this as the ground of his quarrel.