1 Samuel 15 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Saul's Disobedience

1Sa 15:1And Samuel said to Saul, Jehovah sent *me* to anoint thee king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken to the voice of the words of Jehovah.

1Sa 15:2

1Sa 15:2Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I have considered what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

1Sa 15:3

1Sa 15:3Now go and smite Amalek, and destroy utterly all that they have, and spare them not, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

1Sa 15:4

1Sa 15:4And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

1Sa 15:5

1Sa 15:5And Saul came to the city of the Amalekites, and set an ambush in the valley.

1Sa 15:6

1Sa 15:6And Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, and go 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. And the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

1Sa 15:7

1Sa 15:7And Saul smote Amalek from Havilah as thou comest to Shur, which is opposite to Egypt.

1Sa 15:8

1Sa 15:8And he took Agag the king of Amalek alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

1Sa 15:9

1Sa 15:9And Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep and oxen, and beasts of the second bearing, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not devote them to destruction; but everything that was mean and weak, that they destroyed utterly.

Samuel Rebukes Saul

1Sa 15:10

1Sa 15:10And the word of Jehovah came to Samuel, saying,

1Sa 15:11

1Sa 15:11It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned away from following me, and hath not fulfilled my words. And Samuel was much grieved; and he cried to Jehovah all night.

1Sa 15:12

1Sa 15:12And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set him up a monument, and has turned about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

1Sa 15:13

1Sa 15:13And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, Blessed art thou of Jehovah: I have fulfilled the word of Jehovah.

1Sa 15:14

1Sa 15:14And Samuel said, What means then this bleating of sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of oxen which I hear?

1Sa 15:15

1Sa 15:15And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites, because the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to Jehovah thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

1Sa 15:16

1Sa 15:16And Samuel said to Saul, Stay, that I may tell thee what Jehovah has said to me this night. And he said to him, Say on.

1Sa 15:17

1Sa 15:17And Samuel said, Was it not when thou wast little in thine eyes that thou becamest the head of the tribes of Israel, and Jehovah anointed thee king over Israel?

1Sa 15:18

1Sa 15:18And Jehovah sent thee on a way and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

1Sa 15:19

1Sa 15:19Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of Jehovah, but didst fall upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of Jehovah?

1Sa 15:20

1Sa 15:20And Saul said to Samuel, I have indeed hearkened to the voice of Jehovah, and have gone the way which Jehovah sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

1Sa 15:21

1Sa 15:21But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the choicest of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Jehovah thy God in Gilgal.

1Sa 15:22

1Sa 15:22And Samuel said, Has Jehovah delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, As in hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, Attention than the fat of rams.

1Sa 15:23

1Sa 15:23For rebellion is as the sin of divination, And selfwill is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, He hath also rejected thee from being king.

1Sa 15:24

1Sa 15:24And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of Jehovah, and thy words; for I feared the people, and hearkened to their voice.

1Sa 15:25

1Sa 15:25And now, I pray thee, forgive my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah.

1Sa 15:26

1Sa 15:26And Samuel said to Saul, I will not turn again with thee; for thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, and Jehovah has rejected thee from being king over Israel.

1Sa 15:27

1Sa 15:27And as Samuel turned to go away, Saul laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.

1Sa 15:28

1Sa 15:28Then Samuel said to him, Jehovah has rent the kingdom of Israel from thee to-day, and has given it to thy neighbour, who is better than thou.

1Sa 15:29

1Sa 15:29And also the Hope of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.

1Sa 15:30

1Sa 15:30And he said, I have sinned; honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah thy God.

1Sa 15:31

1Sa 15:31So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped Jehovah.

1Sa 15:32

1Sa 15:32And Samuel said, Bring ye near to me Agag the king of Amalek. And Agag came to him gaily. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

1Sa 15:33

1Sa 15:33And Samuel said, As thy sword has made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless above women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before Jehovah in Gilgal.

1Sa 15:34

1Sa 15:34And Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

1Sa 15:35

1Sa 15:35And Samuel saw Saul no more until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned over Saul; and Jehovah repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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1 Samuel 15 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Saul's Disobedience

Samuel Rebukes Saul

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