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Saul's disobedience in his conquest of the Amalekites
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And Samuel said to Saul, Jehovah sent me to
aanoint you king over His people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the words of Jehovah.
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Thus says Jehovah of hosts, I will punish the
1aAmalekites for what they did to Israel when they set themselves against them in the way as they came up out of Egypt.
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Go now and strike the Amalekites; and
1autterly 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.
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And Saul summoned the people and mustered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah.
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And Saul came to the city of the Amalekites and set an ambush in the river valley.
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And Saul said to the
aKenites, 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.
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Then Saul struck the Amalekites from Havilah as you go toward Shur, which is opposite Egypt.
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And he captured
aAgag the king of the Amalekites alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
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But Saul and the people
1spared 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.
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And the word of Jehovah came to Samuel, saying,
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I arepent 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
bcried to Jehovah all night long.
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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
1monument afor himself, and he has returned and passed on down to Gilgal.
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And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, Blessed are you of Jehovah! I have fulfilled the word of Jehovah.
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And Samuel said, What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears and the lowing of oxen that I hear?
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And Saul said, They have been brought from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and oxen to
1sacrifice to Jehovah your God, and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
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Then Samuel said to Saul, Stop, and I will tell you what Jehovah spoke to me last night. And he said to him, Speak.
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And Samuel said, Though you are
asmall in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? And Jehovah has anointed you king over Israel.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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And Samuel said,
Does Jehovah delight in
aburnt 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.
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For 1rebellion is
like the sin of divination,
And insubordination is
like idolatry and teraphim.
Because you have rejected the word of Jehovah,
He has also
2arejected you from being king.
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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.
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Now therefore pardon my sin, I beg you, and return with me so that I may worship Jehovah.
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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.
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And when Samuel turned around to go,
1Saul seized the corner of his cloak, and it tore.
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And Samuel said to him, Jehovah has
atorn the kingdom of Israel away from you today and has given it to an
1associate of yours, who is better than you.
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Moreover the Eminence of Israel does not lie nor
arepent, for He is not a man that He should repent.
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Then 1Saul 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.
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So Samuel returned after Saul, and Saul worshipped Jehovah.
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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.
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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.
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And Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul.
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And Samuel never again saw Saul unto the day of his death, though Samuel
amourned for Saul. And Jehovah
brepented that He had made Saul king over Israel.
