~ not utterly destroy ~ 09_1SA_15_09  But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all [that was] good, and would not utterly destroy them, but every thing [that was] vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. #, 30_AMO_09_08  Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD [are] upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. #,