The New International Encyclopædia/Agag

A′GAG (Heb., Gk. Ἀγάγ, in the Septuagint). (1) The name, or possibly title, of a king of the Amalekites conquered by Saul, and preserved alive contrary to the command of Jehovah. He was afterward hewn in pieces by Samuel. See I. Samuel xv. (2) In Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, a character standing for Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, the justice of the peace who was assassinated shortly after disclosing the revelations made for him by Titus Oates.