1 Samuel also said to Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore listen you to the voice of the words of the LORD. Compare verse1 commentary
2 Thus said 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. Compare verse1 commentary
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. Compare verse2 commentaries
4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. Compare verse1 commentary
6 And Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. Compare verse1 commentary
7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until you come to Shur, that is over against Egypt. Compare verse1 commentary
8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. Compare verse2 commentaries
9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatted calves, 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. Compare verse1 commentary
11 It repents me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried to the LORD all night. Compare verse4 commentaries
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 is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal. Compare verse1 commentary
13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said to him, Blessed be you of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD. Compare verse1 commentary
14 And Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? Compare verse
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 your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed. Compare verse1 commentary
16 Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what the LORD has said to me this night. And he said to him, Say on. Compare verse1 commentary
17 And Samuel said, When you were little in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed you king over Israel? Compare verse2 commentaries
18 And the LORD sent you on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed. Compare verse
19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but did fly on the spoil, and did evil in the sight of the LORD? Compare verse2 commentaries
20 And Saul said to Samuel, 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 Amalekites. Compare verse3 commentaries
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 your God in Gilgal. Compare verse2 commentaries
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. Compare verse4 commentaries
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king. Compare verse2 commentaries
24 And 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. Compare verse1 commentary
25 Now therefore, I pray you, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD. Compare verse
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. Compare verse1 commentary
27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold on the skirt of his mantle, and it rent. Compare verse4 commentaries
28 And Samuel said to him, The LORD has rent the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, that is better than you. Compare verse3 commentaries
29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent. Compare verse1 commentary
30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray you, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD your God. Compare verse1 commentary
31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD. Compare verse
32 Then said Samuel, Bring you here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came to him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past. Compare verse1 commentary
33 And Samuel said, As the sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal. Compare verse2 commentaries
34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul. Compare verse
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. Compare verse4 commentaries