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1 Samuel 15 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:1 - And Samuel said to Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint thee king over Israel: and now hear the voice of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:2 - Thus said the Lord of hosts, Now will I take vengeance for what Amalec did to Israel, when he met him in the way as he came up out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - And now go, and thou shalt smite Amalec and [fn]Hierim and all that belongs to him, and thou shalt not save anything of him alive, but thou shalt utterly destroy him: and thou shalt devote him and all his to destruction, and thou shalt spare nothing belonging to him; and thou shalt slay both man and woman, and infant and suckling, and calf and sheep, and camel and ass.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:4 - And Saul summoned the people, and he [fn]numbered them in Galgala, four hundred thousand [fn]regular troops, and Juda thirty thousand regular troops.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:5 - And Saul came to the cities of Amalec, and laid wait in the [fn]valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:6 - And Saul said to the Kinite, Go, and depart out of the midst of the Amalekites, lest I put thee with them; for thou dealedst mercifully with the children of Israel when they went up out of Egypt. So the Kinite departed from the midst of Amalec.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:7 - And Saul smote Amalec from Evilat to Sur fronting Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:8 - And he took Agag the king of Amalec alive, and he slew all the people and [fn]Hierim with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9 - And Saul and all the people saved Agag alive, and the [fn]best of the flocks, and of the herds, and of the fruits, of the vineyards, and of all the good things; and they would not destroy them: but every worthless and refuse [fn]thing they destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:10 - And the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:11 - I have [fn]repented that I have made Saul to be king: for he has turned back from following me, and has not kept my word. And Samuel was grieved, and cried to the Lord all night.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:12 - And Samuel rose early and went to meet Israel in the morning, and it was told [fn]Saul, [fn]saying, Samuel has come to Carmel, and he has [fn]raised up help for himself: and he turned his chariot, and came down to Galgala to Saul; and, behold, he was offering up a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord, the chief of the spoils which he brought out of Amalec.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:13 - And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said to him, Blessed art thou [fn]of the Lord: I have [fn]performed all that the Lord said.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:14 - And Samuel said, What then is the [fn]bleating of this flock in my ears, and the sound of the oxen which I hear?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15 - And Saul said, I have brought them out of Amalec, that which the people preserved, even the best of the sheep, and of the cattle, that it might be sacrificed to the Lord thy God, and the rest have I utterly destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:16 - And Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the Lord has said to me this night: and he said to him, Say on.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:17 - And Samuel said to Saul, Art thou not little in his eyes, though a leader of [fn]one of the tribes of Israel? and yet the Lord anointed thee to be king over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:18 - And the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said to thee, Go, and utterly destroy: thou shalt slay the sinners against me, even the Amalekites; and thou shalt war against them until thou have consumed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:19 - And why didst not thou hearken to the voice of the Lord, but didst haste to fasten upon the spoils, and didst that which was evil in the sight of the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:20 - And Saul said to Samuel, Because I listened to the voice of the people: yet I went the way by which the Lord sent me, and I brought Agag the king of Amalec, and I destroyed Amalec.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21 - But the people took of the spoils the best flocks and herds out of that which was destroyed, to sacrifice before the Lord our God in Galgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:22 - And Samuel said, Does the Lord take pleasure in whole-burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in hearing the words of the Lord? behold, obedience is better than a good sacrifice, and hearkening than the fat of rams.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:23 - For sin is as divination; idols bring on pain and grief. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord also shall reject thee from being king over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:24 - And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, in that I have transgressed the word of the Lord and thy direction; for I feared the people, and I hearkened to their voice.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:25 - And now remove, I pray thee, my sin, and turn back with me, and I will worship the Lord thy God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:26 - And Samuel said to Saul, I will not turn back with thee, for thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord will reject thee from being king over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:27 - And Samuel turned his face to depart, and Saul caught hold of the skirt of his [fn]garment, and tore it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:28 - And Samuel said to him, The Lord has rent thy kingdom from Israel out of thy hand this day, and will give it to thy neighbour who is better than thou.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:29 - And [fn]Israel shall be divided to two: and God will not turn nor repent, for he is not as a man to repent.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:30 - And Saul said, I have sinned; yet honour me, I pray thee, before the elders of Israel, and before my people; and turn back with me, and I will worship the Lord thy God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:31 - So Samuel turned back after Saul, and he worshipped the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:32 - And Samuel said, Bring me Agag the king of Amalec: and Agag came to him trembling; and Agag said, [fn]Is death thus bitter?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:33 - And Samuel said to Agag, As thy sword has bereaved women of their children, so shall thy mother be made childless among women: and Samuel slew Agag before the Lord in Galgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:34 - And Samuel departed to Armathaim, and Saul went up to his house at Gabaa.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:35 - And Samuel did not see Saul again till the day of his death, for Samuel mourned after Saul, and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
BES Footnotes
See v 8.
Gr. numbers.
Gr. of ranks.
Gr. brook.
This is strangely given as the rendering of החריס 'he destroyed.'
Gr. good.
Gr. work.
Gr. 'been comforted.' The word has been rendered the same way before.
Heb. and Alex. Samuel.
Heb. and Alex. Saul.
Lit. set up a hand.
Gr. to the Lord.
Gr. established.
Gr. voice.
Gr. staff of a tribe. A double rendering of שבט i. e. both staff and tribe.
Gr. doublet, or mantle.
Wide variation from the Heb.
Or, 'If it be thus, bitter is death.'
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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