And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
Ver. 33. As thy sword hath made women childless.] Thine and thy predecessors', in whose footsteps thou hast trodden; being Mali corvi, malum ovum, a neither good egg, nor good bird.
And Samuel hewed Agag.] With his own hands likely, as Phinehas stabbed Zimri, and Elias slew the Baalites, not out of a desire of revenge, but a zeal for justice: such as was that in Charles V, who, hearing that his general Farnesius had ravished certain gentlewomen, said, If I had the villain here, I would despatch him with mine own hand. b
a A. Lap.
b Parei Med. Hist. Prof.