1Samuel:15:6-23
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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 .