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And Samuel said to Saul: The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people, over Israel; Now listen to the voice of the Lord. |
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Thus says the Lord of hosts: I remembered what Amalek did to Israel, how he opposed him in the way when he came from Egypt; |
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Now go and smite Amalek, and destroy all that he has; And do not give mercy to him, but commit death from husband to wife, from child to infant, from ox to sheep, from camel to ass. |
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And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim two hundred thousand Israelites on foot, and ten thousand of the tribe of Judah. |
| 5
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And Saul came to the city of Amalik, and made an ambush in the valley. |
| 6th
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And Saul said to the Kineans: Go, be separate, go out from the midst of Amalek, lest I destroy you with him, for you showed favor to all Israel when they came from Egypt. And the Cineans were separated from the midst of Amalek. |
| 7th
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And Saul smote the Amalek from Havilah to the neighborhood of Sur, which is before Egypt; |
| 8
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And Agag, king of Amalik, captured the living, and destroyed the people with the sword. |
| 9
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But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and oxen and fattened lambs, and all the good, and did not want to destroy, and all the unimportant and evil ones exterminated.
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| 10
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And the word of the Lord came to Samuel: |
| eleven
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I regret that I made Saul king, because he turned from me and did not fulfill my word. And Samuel was saddened and cried to the Lord all night. |
| 12
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And Samuel rose early in the morning [and went] to meet Saul. And they informed Samuel that Saul went to Carmel and set up a monument there, and went to Gilgal. |
| 13
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When Samuel came to Saul, Saul said to him, Blessed be you of the Lord; I have fulfilled the word of the Lord. |
| 14
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And Samuel said: And what is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the mooing of the oxen that I hear? |
| 15
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And Saul said, They brought them from Amalek, because the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen for sacrifice to the Lord your God; The rest we have exterminated. |
| 16
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And Samuel said to Saul, Wait, I will tell you what the Lord told me at night. And Saul said to him, "Speak." |
| 17th
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And Samuel said, "Were not you small in your own eyes, when you became the head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed you king over Israel?" |
| 18
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And the LORD sent thee on a journey, saying, Go and destroy the wicked Amalekites, and fight against them, until thou destroy them. |
| 19
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Why did you not listen to the voice of the Lord and rushed to the prey, and did evil in the eyes of the Lord? |
| 20
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And Saul said unto Samuel, I hearkened to the voice of the LORD, and went in the way where the Lord sent me, and brought Agag, the king of Amalek, and destroyed Amalek; |
| 21
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And the people of the spoil, of the sheep and of the oxen, took the best of the sworn, to sacrifice to the LORD your God, at Gilgal. |
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And Samuel answered, "Is the burnt offerings and sacrifices as pleasing to the Lord as obedience to the voice of the Lord?" Obedience is better than sacrifice and obedience is better than fat rams; |
| 23
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For rebellion is [the same] sin as magic, and resistance [the same as] idolatry; Because you rejected the word of the Lord, and He rejected you, so that you would not be king.
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| 24
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And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, because I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your word; But I was afraid of the people and listened to their voices; |
| 25
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Now therefore, take away my sin from me, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord. |
| 26th
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And Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you, because you rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord rejected you, so that you would not be king over Israel." |
| 27th
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And Samuel turned to go. But [Saul] seized the edge of his garment and tore it. |
| 28
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Then Samuel said, "Now the LORD tore the kingdom of Israel from thee, and gave it to thy neighbor, which is better than thee; |
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And the faithful of Israel will not speak untruths and repent; For he is not a man, that he should repent. |
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And he said [Saul], I have sinned, but now I am near to the elders of my people and before Israel and come back with me, and I will worship the Lord your God. |
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And Samuel returned for Saul, and Saul bowed to the LORD.
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Then Samuel said: Bring to me Agag, the king of Amalekite. And Agag came to him trembling, and Agag said: surely the bitterness of death was over? |
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But Samuel said: "As your sword has deprived your wives of children, so will your mother among your wives be stripped of her son." And Samuel Agag broke down before the Lord in Gilgal. |
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And Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went to his house, to Gibeah Saul. |
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And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death; But Samuel mourned for Saul, because the Lord repented that he had made Saul over Israel. |
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