Agag: Flame, the usual title of the Amalekite kings, as "Pharaoh" was of the
Egyptian.
1. A king of the Amalekites referred to by Balaam
(Numbers 24:7) He lived
at the time of the Exodus.
2. Another king of the Amalekites whom Saul spared unlawfully, but
whom Samuel on his arrival in the camp of Saul ordered, in
retributive justice
(Judges 1:1)ff to be brought out and cut in
pieces
(1 Samuel 15:8-33) Comp.
(Exodus 17:11, Numbers 14:45)
