Samuel said to Saul, “The LORD sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the LORD’s words. 1Sa 9:161Sa 12:141Ch 22:12-131Sa 13:13Psa 2:10-111Sa 10:11Sa 15:16-182Sa 23:2-3 The LORD of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way when he came up out of Egypt. Deu 25:17-19Num 24:20Exo 17:8-16Hos 7:2Amo 8:7Jer 31:34 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’” Deu 20:16-18Num 24:201Sa 22:19Isa 14:21-22Num 31:17Jos 6:17-21Lev 27:28-29Deu 13:15-16
Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah. Jos 15:241Sa 11:81Sa 13:15 Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley. 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 children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. Jdg 1:16Num 10:29-32Exo 18:19Jdg 4:11Num 24:21-221Sa 27:10Exo 18:9-10Jdg 5:24
Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, which is before Egypt. 1Sa 14:48Gen 16:7Gen 25:181Sa 27:8Exo 15:22Gen 2:11Ecc 8:13Job 21:30 He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. 1Sa 30:1Est 3:1Num 24:71Ki 20:301Ki 20:34-421Sa 15:3Jos 10:39Jos 11:12 But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, of the fat calves, of the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. 1Sa 15:151Sa 15:191Sa 15:3Jos 7:212Sa 6:13
Then the LORD’s word came to Samuel, saying, “It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to the LORD all night. 1Sa 13:13Gen 6:62Sa 24:16Psa 119:1361Sa 15:31Sa 15:351Sa 15:9Jer 9:18
Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, turned, passed on, and went down to Gilgal.” Jos 15:551Sa 25:22Sa 18:181Ki 18:421Sa 7:12Jos 4:8-9
Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by the LORD! I have performed the commandment of the LORD.” Jdg 17:2Rut 3:101Sa 15:111Sa 15:9Gen 14:19Gen 3:12Luk 17:10Luk 18:11
Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?” 1Co 4:5Jer 2:18-19Jer 2:22-23Jer 2:34-37Luk 19:22Mal 3:13-15Psa 36:2Psa 50:16-21
Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to the LORD your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.” 1Sa 15:211Sa 15:9Exo 32:22-23Gen 3:12-13Job 31:33Luk 10:29Mat 2:8Pro 28:13
Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stay, and I will tell you what the LORD said to me last night.” 1Ki 22:161Sa 12:71Sa 9:27
He said to him, “Say on.”
Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel; 1Sa 10:221Sa 15:1-31Sa 9:211Sa 10:1Jdg 6:15Mat 18:4Hos 13:1 and the LORD sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ Gen 13:13Gen 15:16Job 31:3Num 16:38Pro 10:29Pro 13:21 Why then didn’t you obey the LORD’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight?” 1Sa 14:322Ch 33:22Ch 33:62Ch 36:12Hab 2:9-12Jer 7:11Pro 15:272Ti 4:10
Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the LORD’s voice, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 1Sa 15:13Mat 19:20Rom 10:31Sa 15:31Sa 15:8Job 33:9Job 34:5Job 35:2 But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the best of the devoted things, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.” 1Sa 15:15Exo 32:22-23Gen 3:13
Samuel said, “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the LORD’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. Hos 6:6Psa 51:16-17Pro 21:3Amo 5:21-24Mrk 12:33Mat 9:13Mic 6:6-8Jer 7:22-23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. 1 Because you have rejected the LORD’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.” Jer 28:161Sa 13:14Lev 20:6Gal 5:202Co 6:16Deu 18:10-11Jer 29:32Exo 22:18
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. 2Sa 12:13Isa 51:12-13Gal 1:10Num 22:34Pro 29:251Sa 15:30Exo 23:2Exo 9:27 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.” Exo 10:17
Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected the LORD’s word, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.” Hos 4:61Sa 13:141Sa 16:11Sa 15:232Jn 1:11Jer 6:191Sa 15:311Sa 2:30 As Samuel turned around to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore. 1Ki 11:30-31 Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you. 1Sa 28:17-18Act 13:221Ki 11:30-311Sa 13:141Sa 16:121Sa 2:7-8Dan 4:17Dan 4:32 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.” Num 23:19Ezk 24:14Tit 1:22Ti 2:13Heb 6:18Psa 95:11Jol 3:162Co 12:9
Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship the LORD your God.” Jhn 12:43Jhn 5:44Isa 29:132Ti 3:5Hab 2:4Luk 18:9-14
So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshiped the LORD. Then Samuel said, “Bring Agag the king of the Amalekites here to me!” 1Th 5:3Jer 48:44Rev 18:7
Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”
Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!” Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal. Jdg 1:7Gen 9:6Mat 7:2Jas 2:13Rev 16:6Rev 18:61Ki 18:40Exo 17:11
Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul. 1Sa 11:41Sa 7:17 Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death, but Samuel mourned for Saul. The LORD grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel. 1Sa 15:111Sa 19:241Sa 16:1Jer 9:1-2Gen 6:6Php 3:18Psa 119:136Psa 119:158