“But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheepe, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambes, and all that was good, and would not vtterly destroy them: but euery thing that was vile, and refuse, that they destroyed vtterly.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
15:9 Vile - Thus they obeyed God only so far as they could without inconvenience to themselves.