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Chapter 15
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
shewed
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.
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
thy
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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