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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.
02 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.
03 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.
04 And Saul gathered the people together, and
numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand
footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
05 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid
wait in the valley.
06 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, when they came up out
of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the
Amalekites.
07 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah
until thou comest to Shur, that is over against
Egypt.
08 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites
alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with
the edge of the sword.
09 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.
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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.
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 neighbour 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 honour 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.
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