1 Samuel 15 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Saul's Disobedience

1Sa 15:1Shemu'el said to Sha'ul, the LORD sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Yisra'el: now therefore listen you to the voice of the words of the LORD.

1Sa 15:2

1Sa 15:2Thus says the LORD of Hosts, I have marked that which `Amalek did to Yisra'el, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Mitzrayim.

1Sa 15:3

1Sa 15:3Now go and strike `Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

1Sa 15:4

1Sa 15:4Sha'ul summoned the people, and numbered them in Tela'im, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Yehudah.

1Sa 15:5

1Sa 15:5Sha'ul came to the city of `Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

1Sa 15:6

1Sa 15:6Sha'ul said to the Kinim, Go, depart, get you down from among the `Amaleki, lest I destroy you with them; for you shown kindness to all the children of Yisra'el, when they came up out of Mitzrayim. So the Kinim departed from among the `Amaleki.

1Sa 15:7

1Sa 15:7Sha'ul struck the `Amaleki, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Mitzrayim.

1Sa 15:8

1Sa 15:8He took Agag the king of the `Amaleki alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

1Sa 15:9

1Sa 15:9But Sha'ul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

Samuel Rebukes Saul

1Sa 15:10

1Sa 15:10Then came the word of the LORD to Shemu'el, saying,

1Sa 15:11

1Sa 15:11It repents me that I have set up Sha'ul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my mitzvot. Shemu'el was angry; and he cried to the LORD all night.

1Sa 15:12

1Sa 15:12Shemu'el rose early to meet Sha'ul in the morning; and it was told Shemu'el, saying, Sha'ul came to Karmel, and, behold, he set him up a monument, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.

1Sa 15:13

1Sa 15:13Shemu'el came to Sha'ul; and Sha'ul said to him, Blessed are you by the LORD: I have performed the mitzvah of the LORD.

1Sa 15:14

1Sa 15:14Shemu'el said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

1Sa 15:15

1Sa 15:15Sha'ul said, They have brought them from the `Amaleki: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

1Sa 15:16

1Sa 15:16Then Shemu'el said to Sha'ul, Stay, and I will tell you what the LORD has said to me this night. He said to him, Say on.

1Sa 15:17

1Sa 15:17Shemu'el said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Yisra'el? the LORD anointed you king over Yisra'el;

1Sa 15:18

1Sa 15:18and the LORD sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the `Amaleki, and fight against them until they are consumed.'

1Sa 15:19

1Sa 15:19Why then didn't you obey the voice of the LORD, but flew on the spoil, and did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD?"

1Sa 15:20

1Sa 15:20Sha'ul said to Shemu'el, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of `Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the `Amaleki.

1Sa 15:21

1Sa 15:21But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.

1Sa 15:22

1Sa 15:22Shemu'el 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 listen than the fat of rams.

1Sa 15:23

1Sa 15:23For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and terafim. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king.

1Sa 15:24

1Sa 15:24Sha'ul said to Shemu'el, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the mitzvah of the LORD, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

1Sa 15:25

1Sa 15:25Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.

1Sa 15:26

1Sa 15:26Shemu'el said to Sha'ul, I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Yisra'el.

1Sa 15:27

1Sa 15:27As Shemu'el turned about to go away, Sha'ul laid hold on the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

1Sa 15:28

1Sa 15:28Shemu'el said to him, the LORD has torn the kingdom of Yisra'el from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

1Sa 15:29

1Sa 15:29Also the Strength of Yisra'el will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.

1Sa 15:30

1Sa 15:30Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, Please, before the Zakenim of my people, and before Yisra'el, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD your God.

1Sa 15:31

1Sa 15:31So Shemu'el turned again after Sha'ul; and Sha'ul worshiped the LORD.

1Sa 15:32

1Sa 15:32Then said Shemu'el, Bring you here to me Agag the king of the `Amaleki. Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

1Sa 15:33

1Sa 15:33Shemu'el said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. Shemu'el hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

1Sa 15:34

1Sa 15:34Then Shemu'el went to Ramah; and Sha'ul went up to his house to Gevah of Sha'ul.

1Sa 15:35

1Sa 15:35Shemu'el came no more to see Sha'ul until the day of his death; for Shemu'el mourned for Sha'ul: and the LORD repented that he had made Sha'ul king over Yisra'el.

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1 Samuel 15 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Saul's Disobedience

Samuel Rebukes Saul

Pericope