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# Agag came to him confined with chains and said
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"They brought Agag to him bound by chains and Agag said"
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# Surely the bitterness of death has past
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This idiom appears to mean that Agag no longer thought he would be killed. AT: "Surely I am no longer in danger or dying" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women
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Both of these phrases have similar meaning and may be intended to be in poetic form. AT: "Since you have killed people, you will also be killed" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# made women childless, so shall your mother be childless
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This is a polite way of referring to killing people. AT: "killed the sons of other women, so shall I kill your mother's son" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-euphemism]])
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# Then Samuel chopped Agag to pieces
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Samuel is the one who completed this task that Yahweh commanded Saul to do. AT: "Then Samuel cut Agag into pieces with his sword"
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/death]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/sword]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/gilgal]] |