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                                     1Samuel


                                   Chapter 15


  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 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 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.