But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
Samuel had earlier delivered a message of doom to Eli in the morning (1 Samuel 3:15-18). Now he delivered one to Saul on another morning (1 Samuel 14:16).