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1|Sam.|15:1|-|And Samuel said to Saul, Jehovah sent me to |a|anoint you king over His people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the words of Jehovah.
1|Sam.|15:2|-|Thus says Jehovah of hosts, I will punish the |1a|Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they set themselves against them in the way as they came up out of Egypt.
1|Sam.|15:3|-|Go now and strike the Amalekites; and |1a|utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, oxen and sheep, camel and donkey.
1|Sam.|15:4|-|And Saul summoned the people and mustered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah.
1|Sam.|15:5|-|And Saul came to the city of the Amalekites and set an ambush in the river valley.
1|Sam.|15:6|-|And Saul said to the |a|Kenites, Go, depart; go down from among the Amalekites; otherwise, I will destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt. And the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
1|Sam.|15:7|-|Then Saul struck the Amalekites from Havilah as you go toward Shur, which is opposite Egypt.
1|Sam.|15:8|-|And he captured |a|Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
1|Sam.|15:9|-|But Saul and the people |1|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 despised and worthless, this they utterly destroyed.
1|Sam.|15:10|-|And the word of Jehovah came to Samuel, saying,
1|Sam.|15:11|-|I |a|repent that I made Saul king, for he has turned back from following Me and has not fulfilled My words. And Samuel was angry, and he |b|cried to Jehovah all night long.
1|Sam.|15:12|-|Then Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, saying, Saul went to Carmel and has now set up a |1|monument |a|for himself, and he has returned and passed on down to Gilgal.
1|Sam.|15:13|-|And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, Blessed are you of Jehovah! I have fulfilled the word of Jehovah.
1|Sam.|15:14|-|And Samuel said, What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears and the lowing of oxen that I hear?
1|Sam.|15:15|-|And Saul said, They have been brought from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and oxen to |1|sacrifice to Jehovah your God, and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
1|Sam.|15:16|-|Then Samuel said to Saul, Stop, and I will tell you what Jehovah spoke to me last night. And he said to him, Speak.
1|Sam.|15:17|-|And Samuel said, Though you are |a|small in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? And Jehovah has anointed you king over Israel.
1|Sam.|15:18|-|And Jehovah sent you on a journey and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.
1|Sam.|15:19|-|Why then did you not obey the voice of Jehovah, but flew upon the spoil and did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah?
1|Sam.|15:20|-|And Saul said to Samuel, I surely did obey the voice of Jehovah, and I went on the journey that Jehovah sent me on. And I have brought Agag the king of the Amalekites and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
1|Sam.|15:21|-|But of the spoil the people took sheep and oxen, the chief of those things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to Jehovah your God in Gilgal.
1|Sam.|15:22|-|And Samuel said,Does Jehovah delight in |a|burnt offerings and sacrifices
As much as in obeying the voice of Jehovah?Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed, than the fat of rams.
1|Sam.|15:23|-|For |1|rebellion is like the sin of divination,And insubordination is like idolatry and teraphim.
Because you have rejected the word of Jehovah,He has also |2a|rejected you from being king.
1|Sam.|15:24|-|And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Jehovah and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
1|Sam.|15:25|-|Now therefore pardon my sin, I beg you, and return with me so that I may worship Jehovah.
1|Sam.|15:26|-|But Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of Jehovah, and Jehovah has rejected you from being king over Israel.
1|Sam.|15:27|-|And when Samuel turned around to go, |1|Saul seized the corner of his cloak, and it tore.
1|Sam.|15:28|-|And Samuel said to him, Jehovah has |a|torn the kingdom of Israel away from you today and has given it to an |1|associate of yours, who is better than you.
1|Sam.|15:29|-|Moreover the Eminence of Israel does not lie nor |a|repent, for He is not a man that He should repent.
1|Sam.|15:30|-|Then |1|Saul said, I have sinned. Honor me now, I beg you, before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me so that I may worship Jehovah your God.
1|Sam.|15:31|-|So Samuel returned after Saul, and Saul worshipped Jehovah.
1|Sam.|15:32|-|Then Samuel said, Bring Agag the king of the Amalekites near to me. And Agag came to him cheerfully, for Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death has turned.
1|Sam.|15:33|-|And Samuel said, Just as your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag to pieces before Jehovah in Gilgal.
1|Sam.|15:34|-|And Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul.
1|Sam.|15:35|-|And Samuel never again saw Saul unto the day of his death, though Samuel |a|mourned for Saul. And Jehovah |b|repented that He had made Saul king over Israel.
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