Then said Samuel, Bring you here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
"The law specified that devoted things could neither be sold nor redeemed, but must be put to death  (Leviticus 27:28,29); and Samuel honored God's commandment,"[21] by this execution of Agag.  We have already noted that some of the other Agagites had in all probability been spared by Saul, since one of them, Haman, later attempted to murder all the Jews on earth  (Esther 3:1).  Those who seek to second-guess God's order for the execution of Agag are completely refuted by subsequent events.