1 Samuel 15:8-10

Young's Literal Translation

⁸ and he catcheth Agag king of Amalek alive, and all the people he hath devoted by the mouth of the sword;

⁹ and Saul hath pity -- also the people -- on Agag, and on the best of the flock, and of the herd, and of the seconds, and on the lambs, and on all that [is] good, and have not been willing to devote them; and all the work, despised and wasted -- it they devoted.

¹⁰ And the word of Jehovah is unto Samuel, saying,