1Samuel:15
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Samuel also said unto Saul Sha #
uwl #,
The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people ,
over Israel Yisra #
el #:
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 Yisra #
el #,
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 T @
la #
iym #,
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 Yisra #
el #,
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 tso #
n #,
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 Sh @
muw #
el #,
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 Sh @
muw #
el #;
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 Sh @
muw #
el #,
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 Sha #
uwl #:
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 Sha #
uwl #,
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 Yisra #
el #,
and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel Yisra #
el #?
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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 Sh @
muw #
el #,
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 Sh @
muw #
el #,
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 chatta #
ah #,
and turn again with me ,
that I may worship the LORD .
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And Samuel said unto Saul Sha #
uwl #,
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 Yisra #
el #.
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And as Samuel turned about to go away ,
he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle m @#
iyl #,
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 Yisra #
el #,
and turn again with me ,
that I may worship the LORD thy God .
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So Samuel turned again after Saul Sha #
uwl #;
and Saul worshipped the LORD .
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Then said Samuel Sh @
muw #
el #,
Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites .
And Agag came unto him delicately ma #
adan #.
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 Sha #
uwl #.
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And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death :
nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul Sha #
uwl #:
and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel Yisra #
el #.