Agag

Agag was, according to the Old Testament, the king of Amalek who persecuted the Israelites as they fled from Egypt after escaping from Rameses the Great, and was later defeated by the Israelite king Saul.

Biography
As the Israelites fled from Egypt, the Amalekites attacked them and, to mock them, their God and the rite of circumcision, slaughtered them and mutilated any who were captured. After the Israelites escaped, their leader Moses was ordered by God to remember the horrors the Amalekites inflicted upon them, and avenge them. Years later, under the reign of King Saul, Israel attacked Amalek and captured Agag. However, despite the commands of God, Saul refused to put Agag to death. For this, he was condemned by the prophet Samuel, who then took Agag and executed him by mutilating him in the same way that the captured Israelites were mutilated. However, Saul's failure to kill Agag straight away allowed him to continue his line, eventually leading to the Israelites falling into the hands of his genocidal descendent Haman the Agagite.