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    One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Agag. Every Agag in the Bible

    person · also Agagite · Bougeon

    Agag

    אֲגָגΒουγαίου

    Agag, king of the Amalekites, was spared by Saul but killed by Samuel.

    verses
    10
    first named
    1 Samuel 15:8
    last named
    Esther 9:24
    period
    United Monarchy
    tribe
    Sinai

    Description

    Who was Agag?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Agag was the king of the Amalekites during the reign of King Saul of Israel. God commanded Saul to attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything, including Agag. Saul defeated the Amalekites but spared Agag and the best of the livestock. The prophet Samuel rebuked Saul for his disobedience and told him that God had rejected him as king. Samuel then summoned Agag and "hewed him in pieces before the Lord." (1Sa.15.8,9,20,32,33)

    The book of Esther mentions that Haman, the enemy of the Jews, was an Agagite, which suggests he may have been a descendant of Agag the Amalekite. (Est.3.1,10; 8.3,5; 9.24).

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Agag6 of 6 entities the graph connects to Agag, in 2 groups: company 2, events 4. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.Saul and Saul Troops’ sparing of AgagTook part in · 2 versesSaul’s capture of AgagTook part in · 2 versesCompanyLORD1 event · 1,004 versesSaul2 events · 327 versesSamuel2 events · 121 versesGilgal1 event · 38 versesEventsAgag

    Took part in

    Stands in the same events as

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Agag happensAll 2 places the claims about Agag reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Amalek, Gilgal. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Agag there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.AmalekGilgal
    United MonarchyAll 2 places the claims about Agag reach

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 10, across 2 books. The name is written 12 times in them.

    1. 1 Samuel5 verses

      15:815:915:2015:3215:33

    2. Esther5 verses

      3:13:108:38:59:24

    3 further references are to addresses this build does not carry — Septuagint verses, or compound strings the source never resolves. Attested where Atlas does not read is not attested nowhere.

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Saul’s capture of Agag and Saul and Saul Troops’ sparing of AgagSaulFirst king of Israel, anointed by Samuelvia Saul’s capture of AgagCaptureCapture is a concept gathering 56 labelled instances in the text.via Saul and Saul Troops’ sparing of AgagSparingSparing is a concept gathering 12 labelled instances in the text.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on