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          DASV: 1 Samuel 15    

1 Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you to be
king over his people, over Israel. Now, listen to this
message from the LORD.
2 This is what the LORD of hosts says, 'I have carefully
noted all that Amalek did to Israel, how he opposed Israel
along the way, when they came up out of Egypt.
3 Now, go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy everything
that they have, and do not spare them. Kill both men and
women, children and babies, oxen, sheep, camels and donkeys.'"

4 So Saul summoned the troops, and numbered them in Telaim.
There were 200,000 foot soldiers, and 10,000 men of Judah.
5 Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in
the valley.
6 Then Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, leave, get away from
the Amalekites, or I might destroy you with them; for you
showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up
out of Egypt." So the Kenites withdrew from the Amalekites.
7 Then Saul struck down the Amalekites, from Havilah as far
as Shur, to the east of Egypt.
8 He captured Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, but totally
destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, the best of the sheep,
oxen, fat calves, lambs, and everything that was good,
and would not utterly destroy them. But everything
that was despised and worthless they totally destroyed.

10 Then the word of the LORD came to Samuel:
11 "I regret that I ever made Saul king, for he is turned
away from following me, and has not carried out what I told
him to do." Samuel was angry; and he cried out to the LORD
all night.
12 Samuel got up early the next morning to meet Saul, and Samuel
was told, "Saul has gone to Carmel, where he set up a
monument for himself, and turned and went down to Gilgal."

13 When Samuel came to Saul, Saul said to him, "May the LORD
bless you. I have carried out the command of the LORD."
14 Then Samuel replied, "What then is this bleating of the
sheep in my ears, and the lowing of cattle that I hear?"
15 Saul answered, "They brought them from the Amalekites,
for the people spared the best of the sheep and cattle in
order to sacrifice to the LORD your God. The rest we
totally destroyed."
16 Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stop! I will tell you what
the LORD said to me last night." Saul replied, "Tell me."
17 Samuel said, "Although you were once little in your own
sight, were you not made the leader of the tribes of Israel?
The LORD anointed you king over Israel.
18 The LORD sent you on a mission, and said, 'Go, totally
destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them
until they have been consumed.'
19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but you
rushed for the plunder, and what was evil in the sight
of the LORD?"
20 But Saul objected to Samuel, "I have obeyed the voice of
the LORD. I went on the mission that the LORD sent me.
I brought back Agag the king of Amalek, and have totally
destroyed the Amalekites.
21 But the troops took some of the plunder, sheep and oxen,
the best things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the
LORD your God at Gilgal."
22 But Samuel said, "Does the LORD delight as much in burnt
offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Look, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than
the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as bad as the sin of witchcraft,
and stubbornness is as bad as the evil of idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,
he has also rejected you from being king."

24 Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned, for I have
disobeyed the command of the LORD and your words, because
I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and go back with me,
so that I may worship the LORD."
26 But Samuel said to Saul, "I will not go back with you
since you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the
LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel."

27 As Samuel turned to leave, Saul grabbed hold of the
hem of his robe, and it tore.
28 Samuel said to him, "The LORD has torn the kingdom of
Israel from you this day, and has given it to one of
your neighbors who is better than you.
29 The Glory of Israel will not lie or change his mind,
for he is not a man, that he should change his mind."
30 Then Saul pleaded, "I have sinned. But please honor
me now before the elders of my people and before Israel,
and come back with me, that I may worship the LORD
your God."
31 So Samuel went back with Saul, and Saul worshipped
the LORD.

32 Then Samuel said, "Bring Agag king of the Amalekites here
to me." So Agag came to him full of hope, thinking, "Surely
the bitterness of death is past."
33 Samuel declared, "As your sword has made women childless,
so your mother will be childless among women." Samuel
hacked Agag into pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.

34 Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his home
at Gibeah of Saul.
35 Samuel never saw Saul again until the day of his death,
although Samuel did mourn for Saul. But the LORD regretted
that he had made Saul king over Israel.

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