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Chapter 15 Samuel also said unto Saul,

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Mansuckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

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And he took Agag, the king of the
Amalekites, alive, and utterly destroyed

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all the people with the edge of the sword.

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But Saul and the people spared Agag,
and the best of the sheep, and of the

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oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs,
and all that was good, and would not

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utterly destroy them, but everything that
was vile and refuse, that they destroyed

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utterly.

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Then came the word of the Lord unto
Samuel, saying, It repenteth me that I

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have set up Saul to be king, for he has
turned back from following me,

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and hath not performed my commandments.

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And it grieved Samuel, and he cried unto
the Lord all night.

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And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in
the morning, it was told Samuel,

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saying, Saul came to Carmel, and,
behold, he set him up a place,

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and is gone about, and passed on,
and gone down to Gilgal.

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And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said
unto him, Blessed be thou of the Lord!

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I have performed the commandment of the
Lord.

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And Samuel said, What meaneth then this
bleating of the sheep in mine ears,

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and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

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And Saul said, They have brought them from
the Amalekites, for the people spared the

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best of the sheep, and of the oxen,
to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God,

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and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

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Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay,
and I will tell thee what the Lord hath

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said to me this night.

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And he said unto him, Say on.

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And Samuel said, When thou wast little in
thine own sight, wast thou not made the

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head of the tribes of Israel?

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And the Lord anointed thee king over
Israel?

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And the Lord sent thee on a journey,
and said, Go, and utterly destroy the

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sinners the Amalekites, and fight against
them until they be consumed.

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Wherefore then didst thou not obey the
voice of the Lord, but didst fly upon the

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spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the
Lord?

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And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea,
I have obeyed the voice of the Lord,

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and have gone the way which the Lord sent
me, and have brought Agag the king of

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Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the
Amalekites.

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But the people took of the spoil,
sheep, and oxen, the chief of the things

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which should have been utterly destroyed,
to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God in

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Gilgal.

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And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great
delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,

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as in obeying the voice of the Lord?

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Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to hearken than the fat of rams.

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For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
and stubbornness is as iniquity and

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idolatry.

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Because thou hast rejected the word of the
Lord, he hath also rejected thee from

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being king.

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And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned,
for I have transgressed the commandment of

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the Lord and thy words, because I feared
the people and obeyed their voice.

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Now therefore I pray thee, pardon my sin,
and turn again with me, that I may worship

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the Lord.

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And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not
return with thee, for thou hast rejected

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the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath
rejected thee from being king over Israel.

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And as Samuel turned about to go away,
he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle,

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and it rent.

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And Samuel said unto him, The Lord hath
rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this

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day, and hath given it to a neighbor of
thine that is better than thou.

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And also the strength of Israel will not
lie nor repent, for he is not a man that

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he should repent.

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Then he said, I have sinned, yet honor me
now, I pray thee, before the elders of my

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people and before Israel, and turn again
with me, that I may worship the Lord thy

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God.

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So Samuel turned again after Saul,
and Saul worshipped the Lord.

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Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me
Agag, the king of the Amalekites.

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And Agag came unto him delicately,
and Agag said, Surely the bitterness of

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death is past.

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And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made
women childless, so shall thy mother be

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childless among women.

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And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the
Lord in Gilgal.

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Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went
up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

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And Samuel came no more to see Saul until
the day of his death.

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Nevertheless, Samuel mourned for Saul,
and the Lord repented that he had made

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Saul king over Israel.