1 | Samuel
also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his
people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of
the LORD. |
2 | Thus saith
the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait
for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. |
3 | 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. |
4 | And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them
in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. |
5 | And Saul came to a city of
Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. |
6 | 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. |
7 | And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to
Shur, that is over against Egypt. |
8 | And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly
destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. |
9 | 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 every thing that was
vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. |
10 | Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying, |
11 | 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; and he cried unto the
LORD all night. |
12 | And
when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, 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. |
13 | And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou
of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD. |
14 | And Samuel said, What meaneth then
this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I
hear? |
15 | 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. |
16 |
Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath
said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on. |
17 | And Samuel said, When thou wast little
in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and
the LORD anointed thee king over Israel? |
18 | 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. |
19 |
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? |
20 | And Saul said unto Samuel, 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. |
21 | 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. |
22 | 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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23 | 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. |
24 | And
Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment
of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their
voice. |
25 | Now therefore,
I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the
LORD. |
26 | And Samuel said
unto Saul, 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. |
27 | And as Samuel turned about to go
away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent. |
28 | And Samuel said unto him, The LORD
hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a
neighbor of thine, that is better than thou. |
29 | And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor
repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent. |
30 | 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 the LORD thy God. |
31 | So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped
the LORD. |
32 | Then said
Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came
unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past. |
33 | And Samuel said, As the
sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women.
And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal. |
34 | Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul
went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul. |
35 | And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of
his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he
had made Saul king over Israel. |