1 Samuel 15
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- 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.
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- Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which
Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up
from Egypt.
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- Now go and smite Amalek, 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.
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- And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them
in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
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- And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the
valley.
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- And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down
from among the Amalekites, 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.
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- And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou
comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
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- And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and
utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
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- 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.
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- Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed
be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.
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- And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the
sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
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- And Saul said, They have brought them from the
Amalekites: 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.
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- 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.
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- 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?
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- And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and
utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they
be consumed.
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- 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?
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- 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 Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn
again with me, that I may worship the LORD.
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- 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.
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- And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon
the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
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- 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.
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- And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent:
for he is not a man, that he should repent.
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- 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.
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- So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped
the LORD.
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- Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of
the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the
bitterness of death is past.
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- 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.
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- Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house
to Gibeah of Saul.
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- 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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