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15:8 Agag. This is either a personal name or a title, like “Pharaoh”; see Num. 24:7; “Agagite” in Esth. 3:1.
all the people. This is not “all” without exception, but all who fell into Saul’s hands (there are later references to Amalekites in 27:8; 30:1, 18). For this limited sense of “all,” cf. 13:7; 31:6.