Holy Bible
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Samuel: Chapter 15
1. SAMUEL also said unto Saul,
The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel:
now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.
2. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Am-a-lek did to
Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
3. Now go and smite Am-a-lek, and utterly destroy all that they have,
and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox
and sheep, camel and ass.
4. And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Te-la-im,
two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
5. And Saul came to a city of Am-a-lek, and laid wait in the valley.
6. And Saul said unto the Ke-nites, Go, depart, get you down from among
the A-mal-ek-ites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness
to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So
the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
7. And Saul smote the A-mal-ek-ites from Hav-i-lah until thou comest to
Shur, that is over against Egypt.
8. And he took Agag the king of the A-mal-ek-ites alive, and utterly
destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
9. 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.
10. Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,
11. It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned
back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments.
And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
12. And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told
Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place,
and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
13. And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of
the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.
14. And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep
in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
15. And Saul said, They have brought them from the A-mal-ek-ites: for
the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice
unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
16. Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD
hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
17. And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou
not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee
king over Israel?
18. And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly
destroy the sinners the A-mal-ek-ites, and fight against them until they
be consumed.
19. Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst
fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
20. And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD,
and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the
king of Am-a-lek, and have utterly destroyed the A-mal-ek-ites.
21. But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the
things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the
LORD thy God in Gilgal.
22. And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings
and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is
better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
23. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as
iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the
LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
24. And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed
the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people,
and obeyed their voice.
25. Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me,
that I may worship the LORD.
26. And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou
hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from
being king over Israel.
27. And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt
of his mantle, and it rent.
28. And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel
from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is
better than thou.
29. And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is
not a man, that he should repent.
30. Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before
the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that
I may worship the LORD thy God.
31. So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.
32. Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the A-mal-ek-ites.
And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the
bitterness of death is past.
33. And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall
thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in
pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
34. Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah
of Saul.
35. And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death:
nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had
made Saul king over Israel.
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