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I Samuel Chapter 15

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I SAMUEL

I Samuel 15

1Samuel also said unto Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the Lord.
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 remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
Deuteronomy 25:17, Deuteronomy 25:19, Deuteronomy 25:17, Deuteronomy 25:19, Exodus 17:8
3Now 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.
Deuteronomy 20:16, Deuteronomy 20:18, Numbers 24:20, Deuteronomy 20:16, Deuteronomy 20:18
4And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
Joshua 15:24, Joshua 15:24, 1 Samuel 11:8, 1 Samuel 13:15, 1 Samuel 11:8
5And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
6And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
Judges 1:16, Judges 1:16, Numbers 10:29, Numbers 10:32, Numbers 10:29
7And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
Genesis 16:7, Genesis 25:18, 1 Samuel 14:48, Genesis 16:7, Genesis 25:18
8And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
1 Samuel 30:1, 1 Samuel 30:1, Numbers 24:7, Esther 3:1, Numbers 24:7
9But 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.
1 Samuel 15:15, 1 Samuel 15:15, 1 Samuel 15:3, 1 Samuel 15:19, 1 Samuel 15:3
10Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel, saying,
11It repenteth me 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 unto the Lord all night.
1 Samuel 13:13, 1 Samuel 13:13, Genesis 6:6, Genesis 6:6, Psalms 119:136
12And 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.
Joshua 15:55, Joshua 15:55, 2 Samuel 18:18, 1 Samuel 25:2, 2 Samuel 18:18
13And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the Lord: I have performed the commandment of the Lord.
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 sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
1 Corinthians 4:5, Psalms 36:2, Luke 19:22, Malachi 3:13, Malachi 3:15
15And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
1 Samuel 15:21, 1 Samuel 15:9, 1 Samuel 15:21, 1 Samuel 15:9, Exodus 32:22
16Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
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 little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed thee king over Israel?
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 a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
Job 31:3, Genesis 15:16, Proverbs 10:29, Numbers 16:38, Genesis 13:13
19Wherefore 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?
1 Samuel 14:32, 1 Samuel 14:32, 2 Chronicles 33:2, 2 Chronicles 33:6, Jeremiah 7:11
20And Saul said unto 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.
1 Samuel 15:13, 1 Samuel 15:13, Romans 10:3, Romans 10:3, Matthew 19:20
21But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God in Gilgal.
1 Samuel 15:15, 1 Samuel 15:15, Exodus 32:22, Exodus 32:23, Exodus 32:22
22And 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.
Hosea 6:6, Hosea 6:6, Psalms 51:16, Psalms 51:17, Psalms 51:16
23For 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.
Jeremiah 28:16, Jeremiah 28:16, 1 Samuel 13:14, 1 Samuel 13:14, Leviticus 20:6
24And Saul said unto 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.
Isaiah 51:12, Isaiah 51:13, 2 Samuel 12:13, Isaiah 51:12, Isaiah 51:13
25Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord.
Exodus 10:17, Exodus 10:17
26And Samuel said unto 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.
Hosea 4:6, Hosea 4:6, 1 Samuel 13:14, 1 Samuel 16:1, 1 Samuel 13:14
27And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
1 Kings 11:30, 1 Kings 11:31, 1 Kings 11:30, 1 Kings 11:31
28And Samuel said unto him, The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.
1 Samuel 28:17, 1 Samuel 28:18, 1 Samuel 28:17, 1 Samuel 28:18, Acts 13:22
29And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
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, 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.
John 12:43, John 5:44, John 12:43, John 5:44, Isaiah 29:13
31So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the Lord.
32Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
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 Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.
Judges 1:7, Judges 1:7, Genesis 9:6, Genesis 9:6, Matthew 7:2
34Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
1 Samuel 11:4, 1 Samuel 11:4, 1 Samuel 7:17, 1 Samuel 7:17
35And 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.
1 Samuel 19:24, 1 Samuel 15:11, 1 Samuel 19:24, 1 Samuel 15:11, 1 Samuel 16:1

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