1And Samuel said to Saul: The Lord sent me to anoint thee king over his people Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the Lord:

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1 Samuel 9:16, 1 Samuel 9:16, 1 Samuel 12:14, 1 Samuel 12:14, 1 Samuel 13:13

2Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have reckoned up all that Amalec hath done to Israel: how he opposed them in the way when they came up out of Egypt.

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Deuteronomy 25:17, Deuteronomy 25:19, Deuteronomy 25:17, Deuteronomy 25:19, Exodus 17:8

3Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that he hath: spare him not, nor covet anything that is his: but slay both man and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

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Deuteronomy 20:16, Deuteronomy 20:18, Numbers 24:20, Deuteronomy 20:16, Deuteronomy 20:18

4So Saul commanded the people, and numbered them as lambs: two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand of the men of Juda.

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Joshua 15:24, Joshua 15:24, 1 Samuel 11:8, 1 Samuel 13:15, 1 Samuel 11:8

5And when Saul was come to the city of Amalec, he laid ambushes in the torrent.

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6And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart, and get ye down from Amalec: lest I destroy thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. And the Cinite departed from the midst of Amalec.

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Judges 1:16, Judges 1:16, Numbers 10:29, Numbers 10:32, Numbers 10:29

7And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila, until thou comest to Sur, which is over against Egypt.

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Genesis 16:7, Genesis 25:18, 1 Samuel 14:48, Genesis 16:7, Genesis 25:18

8And he took Agag, the king of Amalec, alive: but all the common people he slew with the edge of the sword.

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1 Samuel 30:1, 1 Samuel 30:1, Numbers 24:7, Esther 3:1, Numbers 24:7

9And Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the flocks of sheep, and of the herds, and the garments and the rams, and all that was beautiful, and would not destroy them: but every thing that was vile, and good for nothing, that they destroyed.

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1 Samuel 15:15, 1 Samuel 15:15, 1 Samuel 15:3, 1 Samuel 15:19, 1 Samuel 15:3

10And the word of the Lord came to Samuel,

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11It repenteth me that I have made Saul king: for he hath forsaken me, and hath not executed my commandments. And Samuel was grieved, and he cried unto the Lord all night.

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1 Samuel 13:13, 1 Samuel 13:13, Genesis 6:6, Genesis 6:6, Psalms 119:136

12And when Samuel rose early, to go to Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel that Saul was come to Carmel, and had erected for himself a triumphant arch, and returning had passed on, and gone down to Galgal. And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul was offering a holocaust to the Lord, out of the choicest of the spoils, which he had brought from Amalec.

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Joshua 15:55, Joshua 15:55, 2 Samuel 18:18, 1 Samuel 25:2, 2 Samuel 18:18

13And when Samuel was come to Saul, Saul said to him: Blessed be thou of the Lord, I have fulfilled the word of the Lord.

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Ruth 3:10, Judges 17:2, Ruth 3:10, Judges 17:2, Genesis 14:19

14And Samuel said: What meaneth then this bleating of the flocks, which soundeth in my ears, and the lowing of the herds, which I hear?

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1 Corinthians 4:5, Psalms 36:2, Luke 19:22, Malachi 3:13, Malachi 3:15

15And Saul said: They have brought them from Amalec: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the herds, that they might be sacrificed to the Lord thy God, but the rest we have slain.

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1 Samuel 15:21, 1 Samuel 15:9, 1 Samuel 15:21, 1 Samuel 15:9, Exodus 32:22

16And Samuel said to Saul: Suffer me, and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this night. And he said to him: Speak.

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1 Samuel 12:7, 1 Kings 22:16, 1 Samuel 9:27, 1 Samuel 12:7, 1 Kings 22:16

17And Samuel said: When thou wast a little one in thy own eyes, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the Lord anointed thee to be king over Israel.

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1 Samuel 9:21, 1 Samuel 9:21, 1 Samuel 15:1, 1 Samuel 15:3, 1 Samuel 10:22

18And the Lord sent thee on the way, and said: Go, and kill the sinners of Amalec, and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast utterly destroyed them.

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Job 31:3, Genesis 15:16, Proverbs 10:29, Numbers 16:38, Genesis 13:13

19Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the Lord: but hast turned to the prey, and hast done evil in the eyes of the Lord?

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1 Samuel 14:32, 1 Samuel 14:32, 2 Chronicles 33:2, 2 Chronicles 33:6, Jeremiah 7:11

20And Saul said to Samuel: Yea, I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord, and have walked in the way by which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag, the king of Amalec, and Amalec I have slain.

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1 Samuel 15:13, 1 Samuel 15:13, Romans 10:3, Romans 10:3, Matthew 19:20

21But the people took of the spoils, sheep and oxen, as the firstfruits of those things that were slain, to offer sacrifice to the Lord their God in Galgal.

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1 Samuel 15:15, 1 Samuel 15:15, Exodus 32:22, Exodus 32:23, Exodus 32:22

22And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat or rams.

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Hosea 6:6, Hosea 6:6, Psalms 51:16, Psalms 51:17, Psalms 51:16

23Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to rebel: and like the crime of idolatry, to refuse to obey. Forasmuch, therefore, as thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord hath also rejected thee from being king.

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Jeremiah 28:16, Jeremiah 28:16, 1 Samuel 13:14, 1 Samuel 13:14, Leviticus 20:6

24And Saul said to Samuel: I have sinned, because I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words, fearing the people, and obeying their voice.

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Isaiah 51:12, Isaiah 51:13, 2 Samuel 12:13, Isaiah 51:12, Isaiah 51:13

25But now bear, I beseech thee, my sin, and return with me, that I may adore the Lord.

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Exodus 10:17, Exodus 10:17

26And Samuel said to Saul: I will not return with thee, because thou hath rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.

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Hosea 4:6, Hosea 4:6, 1 Samuel 13:14, 1 Samuel 16:1, 1 Samuel 13:14

27And Samuel turned about to go away: but he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.

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1 Kings 11:30, 1 Kings 11:31, 1 Kings 11:30, 1 Kings 11:31

28And Samuel said to him: The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to thy neighbour who is better than thee.

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1 Samuel 28:17, 1 Samuel 28:18, 1 Samuel 28:17, 1 Samuel 28:18, Acts 13:22

29But the triumpher in Israel will not spare, and will not be moved to repentance: for he is not a man that he should repent.

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Numbers 23:19, Ezekiel 24:14, Numbers 23:19, Ezekiel 24:14, Titus 1:2

30Then he said: I have sinned: yet honour me now before the ancients of my people, and before Israel, and return with me, that I may adore the Lord thy God.

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John 12:43, John 5:44, John 12:43, John 5:44, Isaiah 29:13

31So Samuel turned again after Saul: and Saul adored the Lord.

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32And Samuel said: Bring hither to me Agag, the king of Amalec. And Agag was presented to him very fat, and trembling. And Agag said: Doth bitter death separate in this manner?

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1 Thessalonians 5:3, Jeremiah 48:44, Revelation 18:7, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, Jeremiah 48:44

33And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed him in pieces before the Lord in Galgal.

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Judges 1:7, Judges 1:7, Genesis 9:6, Genesis 9:6, Matthew 7:2

34And Samuel departed to Ramatha: but Saul went up to his house in Gabaa.

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1 Samuel 11:4, 1 Samuel 11:4, 1 Samuel 7:17, 1 Samuel 7:17

35And Samuel saw Saul no more till the day of his death: nevertheless, Samuel mourned for Saul, because the Lord repented that he had made him king over Israel.

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1 Samuel 19:24, 1 Samuel 15:11, 1 Samuel 19:24, 1 Samuel 15:11, 1 Samuel 16:1