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1 Samuel 15 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:1 - Samuel also said to Saul, the LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou to the voice of the words of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:2 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:4 - And Saul assembled the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:5 - And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:6 - And Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, withdraw yourselves from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye showed kindness to all the children of Israel when they came up from Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:7 - And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah, until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:8 - And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9 - But Saul 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 would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

Samuel Rebukes Saul

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:10 - Then came the word of the LORD to Samuel, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:11 - I repent that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried to the LORD all night.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:12 - And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set him up a place, and has gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:13 - And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said to him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:14 - And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15 - And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:16 - Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath 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, When thou wast little in thy own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee 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, Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:19 - Why then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst 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, Yea, 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 Amalekites.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21 - But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the LORD thy God in Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:22 - And Samuel said, Hath 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 hearken than the fat of rams.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:23 - For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:24 - And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words; because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:25 - Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:26

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:27 - And as Samuel turned about to depart, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:28 - And Samuel said to him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbor of thine, that is better than thou.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:29 - And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:30 - Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:31 - So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshiped the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:32 - Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came to him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:33 - And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:34 - Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:35 - And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
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1 Samuel Chapter 15 — Additional Translations:

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