{"id":812,"date":"2015-01-10T13:47:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/?p=812"},"modified":"2020-03-07T11:10:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T16:10:15","slug":"1sa15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa15\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Samuel 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main\">\r\n <div class=\"chapterlabel\"><a name=\"V0\"> 15<\/a><\/div><div class=\"p\">\r\n <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V1\">1\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee <span class=\"add\">to be<\/span> king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V2\">2\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember <span class=\"add\">that<\/span> which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid <span class=\"add\">wait<\/span> for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V3\">3\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V4\">4\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V5\">5\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V6\">6\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V7\">7\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah <span class=\"add\">until<\/span> thou comest to Shur, that <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> over against Egypt.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V8\">8\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V9\">9\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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 <span class=\"add\">that was<\/span> good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing <span class=\"add\">that was<\/span> vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V10\">10\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V11\">11\u00a0<\/a><\/span>It repenteth me that I have set up Saul <span class=\"add\">to be<\/span> 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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V12\">12\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V13\">13\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed <span class=\"add\">be<\/span> thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V14\">14\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Samuel said, What <span class=\"add\">meaneth<\/span> then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V15\">15\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V16\">16\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V17\">17\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Samuel said, When thou <span class=\"add\">wast<\/span> little in thine own sight, <span class=\"add\">wast<\/span> thou not <span class=\"add\">made<\/span> the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V18\">18\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V19\">19\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V20\">20\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V21\">21\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V22\">22\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Samuel said, Hath the LORD <span class=\"add\">as great<\/span> delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> better than sacrifice, <span class=\"add\">and<\/span> to hearken than the fat of rams.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V23\">23\u00a0<\/a><\/span>For rebellion <span class=\"add\">is as<\/span> the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness <span class=\"add\">is as<\/span> iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from <span class=\"add\">being<\/span> king. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V24\">24\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V25\">25\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V26\">26\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V27\">27\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V28\">28\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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, <span class=\"add\">that is<\/span> better than thou.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V29\">29\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> not a man, that he should repent.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V30\">30\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Then he said, I have sinned: <span class=\"add\">yet<\/span> 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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V31\">31\u00a0<\/a><\/span>So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V32\">32\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V33\">33\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V34\">34\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V35\">35\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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. <\/div><hr \/><\/div>\r\n\r\n  <div class=\"chapters\">\r\n    <h3>1 Samuel Chapters<\/h3>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa01\">1<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa02\">2<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa03\">3<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa04\">4<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa05\">5<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa06\">6<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa07\">7<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa08\">8<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa09\">9<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa10\">10<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa11\">11<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa12\">12<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa13\">13<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa14\">14<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa15\">15<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa16\">16<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa17\">17<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa18\">18<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa19\">19<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa20\">20<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa21\">21<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa22\">22<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa23\">23<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa24\">24<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa25\">25<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa26\">26<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa27\">27<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa28\">28<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa29\">29<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa30\">30<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/1sa31\">31<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 1\u00a0Samuel 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\u00a0Thus 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\u00a0Now 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\u00a0And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. 5\u00a0And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. 6\u00a0And 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\u00a0And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt. 8\u00a0And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. 9\u00a0But 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\u00a0Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying, 11\u00a0It 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. 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