1Samuel:15

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* And Samuel said to Saul , LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people , over Israel . Now therefore hearken thou to the voice of the words of LORD . * Thus says LORD of hosts , I have remembered that which Amalek did to Israel , how he set himself against him in the way when he came up out of Egypt . * Now go and smite Amalek , and utterly destroy all that they have , and spare them not , but kill both man and woman , infant and suckling , ox and sheep , camel and donkey . * And Saul summoned the people , and numbered them in Telaim , two hundred thousand footmen , and ten thousand men of Judah . * And Saul came to the city of Amalek , and laid wait in the valley . * And Saul said to the Kenites , Go , depart , get you down from among the Amalekites , lest I destroy you with them , for ye showed kindness to all the sons of Israel when they came up out of Egypt . So the Kenites departed from among the * And Saul smote the Amalekites , from Havilah as thou go to Shur , that is before Egypt . * And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive , and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword . * 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 everything that was vile and refuse , that they dest * Then the word of LORD came to Samuel , saying , * I regret that I have set up Saul to be king , for he has turned back from following me , and has not performed my commandments . And Samuel was angry , and he cried out to LORD all night . * And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning , and it was told Samuel , saying , Saul came to Carmel , and , behold , he set up for him a monument , and turned , and passed on , and went down to Gilgal . * And Samuel came to Saul . And Saul said to him , Blessed be thou of LORD . I have performed the commandment of LORD . * And Samuel said , What then means this bleating of the sheep in my ears , and the lowing of the oxen which I hear ? * 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 to LORD thy God , and the rest we have utterly destroyed . * Then Samuel said to Saul , Stop , and I will tell thee what LORD has said to me this night . And he said to him , Say on . * And Samuel said , Though thou were little in thine own sight , were thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel ? And LORD anointed thee king over Israel . * And LORD sent thee on a journey , and said , Go , and utterly destroy the sinners , the Amalekites , and fight against them until they be consumed . * Why then did thou not obey the voice of LORD , but did fly upon the spoil , and did that which was evil in the sight of LORD ? * And Saul said to Samuel , Yes , I have obeyed the voice of LORD , and have gone the way which LORD sent me , and have brought Agag the king of Amalek , and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites . * But the people took of the spoil , sheep and oxen , the chief of the devoted things , to sacrifice to LORD thy God in Gilgal . * And Samuel said , Has LORD as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices , as in obeying the voice of LORD ? Behold , to obey is better than sacrifice , and to hearken than the fat of rams . * For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft , and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim . Because thou have rejected the word of LORD , he has also rejected thee from being king . * And Saul said to Samuel , I have sinned , for I have transgressed the commandment of LORD , and thy words , because I feared the people , and obeyed their voice . * Now therefore , I pray thee , pardon my sin , and turn again with me that I may worship LORD . * And Samuel said to Saul , I will not return with thee , for thou have rejected the word of LORD , and LORD has rejected thee from being king over Israel . * And as Samuel turned about to go away , [Saul ] laid hold upon the skirt of his robe , and it tore . * And Samuel said to him , LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from thee this day , and has given it to a neighbor of thine , who is better than thou . * And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent , for he is not a man that he should repent . * Then he said , I have sinned . Yet honor me now , I pray thee , before the elders of my people , and before Israel , and turn again with me , that I may worship LORD thy God . * So Samuel turned again after Saul , and Saul worshipped LORD . * Then Samuel said , Bring ye here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites . And Agag came to him cheerfully . And Agag said , Surely the bitterness of death is past . * And Samuel said , As thy sword has made women childless , so shall thy mother be childless among women . And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before LORD in Gilgal . * Then Samuel went to Ramah , and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul . * And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death , for Samuel mourned for Saul , and LORD regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel .

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