Would not utterly destroy them As they had been commanded of God, but took them as a prey to themselves. Every thing that was vile, they destroyed All that was not worth the keeping. Thus they obeyed God as far as they could, without inconvenience and loss to themselves, which is a striking instance of the baseness of human nature, when governed by covetousness, or any such like grovelling affection or appetite.
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1 Samuel 15:9
9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings,a and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.