...by hewing the devoted Agag in pieces there right " before the Lord in Gilgal." (Sam. I. xv. 33.) " As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women : (said he) and Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal ; " (Ib. ;) and served him but...

...worshipped the LORD. 32 Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And gation before the LORD : 43 S3 death is past. And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless...

...consider it the effect of the divine blessing." FATE OF PERSECUTORS OF THE CHURCH. — 1 Sam. xv. 33. — "As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. " — Persecutors and others who have unjustly shed the blood of their fellow-creatures, have often,...

...prefer to all others : first, gold ; second, precious stones ; and third, land.— ROBERTS. Ver. 33. he south ; the air was repeatedly cooled by showers which had fal tliy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal. See...

...Saul worshipped the LORD. Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely...childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces * At last, Saul humbled and debased by a succession of mean subterfuges, confesses the mortifying truth...

...many instances where the Divinity himself immediately inflicts or commands it. Thus Samuel to Agag, " as thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women."* Thus Nathan to David, for his crime against Uriah; " thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite, with the sword,...

...directly made, or only hinted. Samuel, we are told, said to Agag, immediately before he killed him, " As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women5." The sentiment here expressed, namely, that the treatment which the tyrant was to receive,...

...offence. And under the same impulse, Samuel said, "Bring ye hither Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely...women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal." Though Agag had been an enemy to Saul and to his people, and was still an enemy to both,...

...offence. And under the same impulse, Samuel said, "Bring ye hither Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely...women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal." Though Agag had been an enemy to Saul and to his people, and was still an enemy to both,...

...Samuel is my warrant, who, when he had Agag, king of Amalek, in his power, hewed him in pieces, saying, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. Do therefore the same to Hengist, who is a second Agag." Accordingly Eldol took his sword, and drew...