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.
"Hewed Agag in pieces"  (1 Samuel 15:33).  "The verb appears only here in the Bible and probably refers to some particular method of execution; and being in the Piel conjugation it would mean not so much that Samuel personally put Agag to death, but that he commanded it to be done."[22] "There is something awful in the majesty of the Prophet rising above and eclipsing that of the king.[23]