Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
Agag came ... delicately - pliantly, or cheerfully, since he had gained the favour and protection of the king. х ma`ªdanot (H4574), from `aadan (H5727), to be soft, pliant, is rendered, by Kimchi, and other Jewish writers, 'decked in royal state.'] Poole ('Annotations'), following them, translates it, 'came in delights' - i:e., in his ornaments; not as an offender expecting the sentence of death, but in that garb and gesture which became his royal state.
And Agag said - or, For Agag said, as the reason why he came so. [The Septuagint has: tremoon, trembling.]