1Samuel:15:24-35
rsv@1Samuel:15:24 @ And Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
rsv@1Samuel:15:25 @ Now therefore, I pray, pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the LORD."
rsv@1Samuel:15:26 @ And Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel."
rsv@1Samuel:15:27 @ As Samuel turned to go away, Saul laid hold upon the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
rsv@1Samuel:15:28 @ And Samuel said to him, "The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.
rsv@1Samuel:15:29 @ And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent."
rsv@1Samuel:15:30 @ Then he said, "I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the LORD your God."
rsv@1Samuel:15:31 @ So Samuel turned back after Saul; and Saul worshiped the LORD.
rsv@1Samuel:15:32 @ Then Samuel said, "Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amal'ekites." And Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past."
rsv@1Samuel:15:33 @ And Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women." And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
rsv@1Samuel:15:34 @ Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gib'e-ah of Saul.
rsv@1Samuel:15:35 @ And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.