Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
"And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive"  (1 Samuel 15:8). Young noted that, "The name Agag is found elsewhere only in  Numbers 24:7; and it may possibly have been an hereditary title like Pharaoh)."[11]  We must reject this opinion regarding an `hereditary ritle'; because, when Haman plotted to kill all the Jews on earth, he was identified as "an Agagite," indicating that he was a descendant of the king mentioned here  (Esther 3:1). This also shows that Saul did not destroy "all the people" as he said he did.  Many no doubt escaped, for the Bible reveals that a remnant of them was still able to wage war in the times of Hezekiah  (1 Chronicles 4:43).