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Then
Samuel said to
Saul, “The
LORD
sent me to anoint you
king over His people Israel .
Now therefore ,
listen
to
the words
of the LORD
.
And
Samuel said unto
Saul, Jehovah
sent me to anoint thee
to
be
king over his people ,
over
Israel :
now therefore hearken
thou
unto
the voice
of the words
of
Jehovah
.
This
is
what
the
LORD
of Hosts says:
‘
I witnessed
what
the
Amalekites
did to the Israelites
when
they
ambushed
them
on
their
way up from
Egypt.
Thus
saith
Jehovah
of hosts ,
I have
marked
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 attack
the
Amalekites
and devote
to
destruction
all that belongs
to
them.
Do
not
spare them ,
but put
to
death
men
and women
, children
and infants
, oxen
and sheep, camels
and donkeys
. ’”
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
.
So
Saul summoned the troops
and numbered them at
Telaim —200
, 000
foot
soldiers
and
10
, 000
men of Judah.
And
Saul summoned the people,
and numbered them in
Telaim, two
hundred
thousand
footmen
, and
ten
thousand
men of Judah.
Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay
in
wait in the valley.
And
Saul came to the city of Amalek ,
and laid
wait in the valley.
And he
warned
the Kenites, “Since
you showed kindness to all the Israelites
when they came up out of Egypt ,
go
on
and
get
away
from
the
Amalekites
. Otherwise
I
will
sweep
you
away
with
them.”
So the Kenites moved
away
from the Amalekites.
And Saul
said
unto
the Kenites, Go,
depart,
get
you down
from
among
the
Amalekites,
lest
I
destroy
you
with
them;
for
ye
showed kindness to all the children
of
Israel,
when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed
from among
the Amalekites.
Then
Saul struck
down
the Amalekites all
the
way
from Havilah to Shur, which
is east
of
Egypt.
And
Saul smote
the Amalekites ,
from Havilah as
thou
goest
to Shur, that
is before
Egypt.
He captured
Agag king of Amalek
alive, but
devoted
all the others
to
destruction
with the sword.
And
he took
Agag the
king of the
Amalekites
alive, and
utterly
destroyed
all the people
with the edge
of
the
sword.
Saul and his
troops
spared Agag, along
with
the best of the sheep and cattle
, the fat
calves
and lambs, and the
best
of
everything
else.
They
were
unwilling
to
destroy them ,
but they
devoted
to
destruction
all
that was despised
and worthless
.
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
destroyed
utterly
.
Then the word of the
LORD
came
to
Samuel, saying,
Then came
the word of Jehovah
unto
Samuel, saying,
“I
regret
that I have made
Saul king ,
for he has
turned away
from following Me and has
not carried
out
My instructions
. ”
And Samuel was distressed
and cried out
to
the
LORD
all that
night.
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 Samuel was wroth;
and he
cried unto
Jehovah
all night.
Early in the morning Samuel
got
up
to
confront
Saul,
but
he
was told, “
Saul has
gone
to Carmel, and behold, he has
set up a monument for
himself
and has
turned and gone
down to Gilgal. ”
And
Samuel
rose
early to
meet
Saul
in the morning ;
and
it
was told Samuel
, saying,
Saul came
to Carmel, and ,
behold, he set him
up a monument ,
and turned ,
and passed
on,
and
went
down to Gilgal.
When
Samuel reached
him,
Saul said to
him, “May
the
LORD
bless
you.
I have carried
out
the LORD’s
instructions
. ”
And
Samuel came
to
Saul ;
and
Saul
said unto
him, Blessed
be
thou
of
Jehovah:
I have performed
the commandment
of
Jehovah
.
But
Samuel replied
, “Then
what is
this bleating of sheep and lowing of cattle
that
I hear? ”
And
Samuel said
, What meaneth
then
this bleating of the
sheep in
mine
ears,
and the
lowing of the
oxen
which
I hear?
Saul answered
, “The
troops
brought them from the Amalekites ;
they
spared the best sheep and cattle
to sacrifice to
the
LORD
your
God ,
but
the rest we devoted
to
destruction
. ”
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
Jehovah
thy
God ;
and
the rest we have
utterly
destroyed
.
“Stop!”
exclaimed
Samuel .
“Let
me
tell you
what the
LORD
said to me last
night. ”
“Tell
me
, ”
Saul
replied
.
Then
Samuel said
unto
Saul,
Stay,
and
I
will
tell thee
what Jehovah
hath
said to me this
night. And
he
said
unto
him
, Say
on
.
And Samuel said, “Although
you
were
once
small
in your
own eyes
, have
you
not become
the head of the tribes of Israel? The
LORD
anointed you
king over Israel
And Samuel said, Though
thou
wast
little
in thine
own sight
, wast
thou
not made
the head of the tribes of Israel? And
Jehovah
anointed thee
king over Israel ;
and sent you
on a mission
, saying
, ‘
Go and devote
to
destruction
the sinful
Amalekites .
Fight against them until you
have
wiped
them
out
. ’
and Jehovah
sent thee
on a journey
, and
said
, Go ,
and utterly
destroy
the sinners
the
Amalekites ,
and
fight against them until they
be
consumed
.
So
why
did
you
not obey the LORD?
Why
did
you
rush
upon the plunder
and do
evil in the sight of the
LORD
? ”
Wherefore
then
didst
thou
not obey the voice
of
Jehovah,
but
didst
fly
upon the spoil,
and didst
that
which
was
evil in the sight of Jehovah
?
“But
I
did
obey
the
LORD,”
Saul replied.
“
I went
on
the mission
that
the LORD
gave
me .
I
brought back
Agag king of Amalek and devoted
the Amalekites to
destruction
.
And
Saul said
unto
Samuel,
Yea,
I have
obeyed
the voice
of
Jehovah,
and
have
gone
the way
which
Jehovah
sent
me ,
and
have
brought Agag the
king of Amalek ,
and have
utterly
destroyed
the Amalekites.
The troops
took sheep and cattle
from
the
plunder
, the best
of the things
devoted to
destruction
, in
order
to sacrifice them
to
the
LORD
your
God at
Gilgal. ”
But
the people
took of
the
spoil,
sheep and oxen
, the chief
of the devoted things
, to sacrifice unto
Jehovah
thy
God in
Gilgal.
But
Samuel declared:
“Does
the
LORD
delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as
much
as in obedience
to
His
voice? Behold, obedience
is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness
is
better
than the fat of rams.
And
Samuel said,
Hath
Jehovah
as
great
delight in burnt -
offerings and sacrifices ,
as in obeying
the
voice of
Jehovah
? Behold, to
obey
is better than sacrifice, and to
hearken
than the fat of rams.
For rebellion is like
the sin of divination
, and arrogance
is like
the
wickedness
of
idolatry. Because you
have
rejected the word of the
LORD
, He has
rejected you
as
king. ”
For rebellion is as
the sin of witchcraft
, and stubbornness
is as
idolatry and
teraphim
. Because thou
hast
rejected the word of Jehovah
, he hath
also
rejected thee
from
being
king.
Then
Saul said to
Samuel, “
I have sinned; I have transgressed the LORD’s
commandment and your
instructions
, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
And
Saul said unto
Samuel, I have sinned; for
I have transgressed the commandment of
Jehovah,
and thy
words
, because I feared the people ,
and obeyed their voice.
Now therefore, please
forgive
my sin and return
with me so
I can
worship the
LORD
. ”
Now therefore, I
pray
thee,
pardon
my sin ,
and turn
again
with me ,
that
I may
worship Jehovah
.
“
I will not return with you,”
Samuel
replied.
“
For you
have
rejected the word of the
LORD
, and He
has
rejected you
as
king over Israel. ”
And
Samuel
said
unto
Saul,
I will not return with thee;
for thou
hast
rejected the word of Jehovah
, and Jehovah
hath
rejected thee
from
being
king over Israel.
As Samuel turned to go, Saul grabbed
the hem
of his robe, and it tore
.
And
as Samuel turned about
to go away
, `
Saul '
laid
hold
upon
the skirt
of his robe, and it rent
.
So
Samuel said to
him, “The
LORD
has
torn
the kingdom of Israel from you
today
and has
given it to your
neighbor who
is better than you
.
And
Samuel said unto
him, Jehovah
hath
rent
the kingdom of Israel from thee
this
day,
and hath
given it to a
neighbor of
thine,
that
is better than thou
.
Moreover,
the Glory
of Israel does
not lie or
change
His
mind,
for He is not a man, that He should change
His
mind
. ”
And
also
the Strength
of Israel will
not lie nor
repent;
for he is not a man, that he should repent
.
“
I have sinned ,”
Saul
replied.
“Please
honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel .
Come
back
with me, so
that I may worship the
LORD
your
God. ”
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 Jehovah
thy
God.
So Samuel went
back
with
Saul ,
and Saul worshiped
the
LORD
.
So Samuel turned
again
after
Saul ;
and Saul worshipped
Jehovah
.
Then Samuel
said, “
Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites. ”
Agag came to
him cheerfully ,
for
he
thought
, “
Surely the bitterness of death is past. ”
Then said Samuel
, Bring ye
hither
to
me Agag the
king of the Amalekites. And
Agag came unto
him cheerfully .
And
Agag
said
, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
But
Samuel declared:
“
As your
sword has
made women childless, so your
mother will
be childless among women. ”
And Samuel hacked
Agag to
pieces before the
LORD
at
Gilgal.
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 Jehovah
in
Gilgal.
Then Samuel went to Ramah ,
but
Saul went up to his home
in
Gibeah of Saul.
Then Samuel went to Ramah ;
and
Saul went up to his house
to
Gibeah of Saul.
And to the day of his death ,
Samuel
never
again
visited
Saul.
Samuel mourned for Saul ,
and the
LORD
regretted
that He had made Saul king over Israel.
And Samuel
came
no
more
to see
Saul
until
the day of his death ;
for
Samuel mourned for Saul :
and Jehovah
repented
that he had made Saul king over Israel.
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