1 Samuel 15:8

Agag Agagperhaps means "fiery." As the name is found in Numbers 24:7, it was probably an hereditary title, like Pharaoh among the Egyptians.

utterly destroyed all the people All who fell into their bands. Some survived, and continued a guerilla warfare against the Israelites (1 Samuel 27:8; 1 Samuel 30:1; 2 Samuel 8:12). The last remnant of them was destroyed by a band of Simeonites in the reign of Hezekiah (1 Chronicles 4:43).