15:1 And
Samuel
said
to
Saul,
"The
LORD
sent
me
to
anoint
you
king
over
his
people
Israel;
now
therefore
listen
to
the
words
of
the
LORD.
15:2 Thus
says
the
LORD
of
hosts,
'I
have
noted
what
Amalek
did
to
Israel
in
opposing
them
on
the
way
when
they
came
up
out
of
Egypt.
15:3 Now
go
and
strike
Amalek
and
devote
to
destruction
all
that
they
have.
Do
not
spare
them,
but
kill
both
man
and
woman,
child
and
infant,
ox
and
sheep,
camel
and
donkey.'"
15:4 So
Saul
summoned
the
people
and
numbered
them
in
Telaim,
two
hundred
thousand
men
on
foot,
and
ten
thousand
men
of
Judah.
15:5 And
Saul
came
to
the
city
of
Amalek
and
lay
in
wait
in
the
valley.
15:6 Then
Saul
said
to
the
Kenites,
"Go,
depart;
go
down
from
among
the
Amalekites,
lest
I
destroy
you
with
them.
For
you
showed
kindness
to
all
the
people
of
Israel
when
they
came
up
out
of
Egypt."
So
the
Kenites
departed
from
among
the
Amalekites.
15:7 And
Saul
defeated
the
Amalekites
from
Havilah
as
far
as
Shur,
which
is
east
of
Egypt.
15:8 And
he
took
Agag
the
king
of
the
Amalekites
alive
and
devoted
to
destruction
all
the
people
with
the
edge
of
the
sword.
15:9 But
Saul
and
the
people
spared
Agag
and
the
best
of
the
sheep
and
of
the
oxen
and
of
the
fattened
calves
and
the
lambs,
and
all
that
was
good,
and
would
not
utterly
destroy
them.
All
that
was
despised
and
worthless
they
devoted
to
destruction.
15:10 The
word
of
the
LORD
came
to
Samuel:
15:11 "I
regret
that
I
have
made
Saul
king,
for
he
has
turned
back
from
following
me
and
has
not
performed
my
commandments."
And
Samuel
was
angry,
and
he
cried
to
the
LORD
all
night.
15:12 And
Samuel
rose
early
to
meet
Saul
in
the
morning.
And
it
was
told
Samuel,
"Saul
came
to
Carmel,
and
behold,
he
set
up
a
monument
for
himself
and
turned
and
passed
on
and
went
down
to
Gilgal."
15:13 And
Samuel
came
to
Saul,
and
Saul
said
to
him,
"Blessed
be
you
to
the
LORD.
I
have
performed
the
commandment
of
the
LORD."
15:14 And
Samuel
said,
"What
then
is
this
bleating
of
the
sheep
in
my
ears
and
the
lowing
of
the
oxen
that
I
hear"
15:15 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
your
God,
and
the
rest
we
have
devoted
to
destruction."
15:16 Then
Samuel
said
to
Saul,
"Stop!
I
will
tell
you
what
the
LORD
said
to
me
this
night."
And
he
said
to
him,
"Speak."
15:17 And
Samuel
said,
"Though
you
are
little
in
your
own
eyes,
are
you
not
the
head
of
the
tribes
of
Israel
The
LORD
anointed
you
king
over
Israel.
15:18 And
the
LORD
sent
you
on
a
mission
and
said,
'Go,
devote
to
destruction
the
sinners,
the
Amalekites,
and
fight
against
them
until
they
are
consumed.'
15:19 Why
then
did
you
not
obey
the
voice
of
the
LORD
Why
did
you
pounce
on
the
spoil
and
do
what
was
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
LORD"
15:20 And
Saul
said
to
Samuel,
"I
have
obeyed
the
voice
of
the
LORD.
I
have
gone
on
the
mission
on
which
the
LORD
sent
me.
I
have
brought
Agag
the
king
of
Amalek,
and
I
have
devoted
the
Amalekites
to
destruction.
15:21 But
the
people
took
of
the
spoil,
sheep
and
oxen,
the
best
of
the
things
devoted
to
destruction,
to
sacrifice
to
the
LORD
your
God
in
Gilgal."
15:22 And
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
listen
than
the
fat
of
rams.
15:23 For
rebellion
is
as
the
sin
of
divination,
and
presumption
is
as
iniquity
and
idolatry.
Because
you
have
rejected
the
word
of
the
LORD,
he
has
also
rejected
you
from
being
king."
15:24 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.
15:25 Now
therefore,
please
pardon
my
sin
and
return
with
me
that
I
may
worship
the
LORD."
15:26 And
Samuel
said
to
Saul,
"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
Israel."
15:27 As
Samuel
turned
to
go
away,
Saul
seized
the
skirt
of
his
robe,
and
it
tore.
15:28 And
Samuel
said
to
him,
"The
LORD
has
torn
the
kingdom
of
Israel
from
you
this
day
and
has
given
it
to
a
neighbor
of
yours,
who
is
better
than
you.
15:29 And
also
the
Glory
of
Israel
will
not
lie
or
have
regret,
for
he
is
not
a
man,
that
he
should
have
regret."
15:30 Then
he
said,
"I
have
sinned;
yet
honor
me
now
before
the
elders
of
my
people
and
before
Israel,
and
return
with
me,
that
I
may
bow
before
the
LORD
your
God."
15:31 So
Samuel
turned
back
after
Saul,
and
Saul
bowed
before
the
LORD.
15:32 Then
Samuel
said,
"Bring
here
to
me
Agag
the
king
of
the
Amalekites."
And
Agag
came
to
him
cheerfully.
Agag
said,
"Surely
the
bitterness
of
death
is
past."
15:33 And
Samuel
said,
"As
your
sword
has
made
women
childless,
so
shall
your
mother
be
childless
among
women."
And
Samuel
hacked
Agag
to
pieces
before
the
LORD
in
Gilgal.
15:34 Then
Samuel
went
to
Ramah,
and
Saul
went
up
to
his
house
in
Gibeah
of
Saul.
15:35 And
Samuel
did
not
see
Saul
again
until
the
day
of
his
death,
but
Samuel
grieved
over
Saul.
And
the
LORD
regretted
that
he
had
made
Saul
king
over
Israel.