I Samuel 15


  1. Samuel also said to Saul, "The Lord sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel.  Now therefore, heed the voice of the words of the Lord.  (1 Sam. 9:16;   1 Sam. 10:1)
  2. "Thus says the Lord of hosts:  'I will punish what Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him on the way when he came up from Egypt.  (Deut. 25:17-19)
  3. "I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments."  And it grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the Lord all night.  (Gen. 6:6-7;   1 Sam. 13:13;   Job 34:27)
  4. And Saul said, "They have brought them from Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed."  (Gen. 3:12&13;   1 Sam. 15:21)
  5. "But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal."  (1 Sam. 15:15)
  6. Then Samuel said:
      "Has 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 heed than the fat of rams.  (Ps. 51:16;   Is. 1:11 - 17;   Hos. 6:6;   Prov. 21:3)
  7.           For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
      And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
      Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
      He also has rejected you from being king."  (1 Sam. 13:14)
  8. Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.  (Joshua 7:20;   Isaiah 51:12&13;   John 19:13)
  9. "Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord."
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