151 Samuel 15

CHAP. XV. / 1 Samuel sendeth Saul to destroy Amalek. 6 Saul fauoureth the Kenites. 8 Hee spareth Agag and the best of the spoile. 10 Samuel denounceth vnto Saul commending and excusing himselfe, Gods

1Samuel also saide vnto Saul, The Lord sent me to annoint thee to bee king ouer his people, ouer Israel: nowe therefore hearken thou vnto the voyce of the words of the Lord.Select 1 Samuel 15:1

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 vp from Egypt.Select 1 Samuel 15:2

3Now goe, and smite Amalek, and vtterly destroy all that they haue, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, oxe and sheepe, camell and asse.Select 1 Samuel 15:3

4And Saul gathered the people together, and numbred them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Iudah.Select 1 Samuel 15:4

5And Saul came to a citie of Amalek, and laid waite in the valley.Select 1 Samuel 15:5

6And Saul saide vnto the Kenites, Goe, depart, get you downe from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for yee shewed kindnesse to all the children of Israel when they came vp out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.Select 1 Samuel 15:6

7And Saul smote the Amalekites from Hauilah, vntill thou commest to Shur, that is ouer against Egypt.Select 1 Samuel 15:7

8And hee tooke Agag the king of the Amalekites aliue, and vtterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.Select 1 Samuel 15:8

9But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheepe, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambes, and all that was good, and would not vtterly destroy them: but euery thing that was vile, and refuse, that they destroyed vtterly.Select 1 Samuel 15:9

10Then came the word of the Lord vnto Samuel, saying;Select 1 Samuel 15:10

11It repenteth me that I haue set vp Saul to be king: for hee is turned backe from following me, and hath not performed my commandements. And it grieued Samuel; and he cried vnto the Lord all night.Select 1 Samuel 15:11

12And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was tolde Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set him vp a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone downe to Gilgal.Select 1 Samuel 15:12

13And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said vnto him, Blessed be thou of the Lord: I haue performed the commandement of the Lord.Select 1 Samuel 15:13

14And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheepe in mine eares, and the lowing of the oxen which I heare?Select 1 Samuel 15:14

15And Saul sayde, They haue brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheepe, and of the oxen, to sacrifice vnto the Lord thy God, and the rest we haue vtterly destroyed.Select 1 Samuel 15:15

16Then Samuel sayd vnto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to mee this night. And he said vnto him, Say on.Select 1 Samuel 15:16

17And Samuel said, When thou wast litle in thine owne sight, wast thou not made the Head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed thee King ouer Israel?Select 1 Samuel 15:17

18And the Lord sent thee on a iourney, and said, Goe, and vtterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them, vntill they be consumed.Select 1 Samuel 15:18

19Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the Lord, but didst flie vpon the spoile, and didst euill in the sight of the Lord?Select 1 Samuel 15:19

20And Saul said vnto Samuel; Yea, I haue obeyed the voice of the Lord, and haue gone the way which the Lord sent me, and haue brought Agag the king of Amalek, and haue vtterly destroyed the Amalekites.Select 1 Samuel 15:20

21But the people tooke of the spoile, sheepe and oxen, the chiefe of the things which should haue bene vtterly destroyed, to sacrifice vnto the Lord thy God in Gilgal.Select 1 Samuel 15:21

22And Samuel saide, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey, is better then sacrifice: and to hearken, then the fat of rammes.Select 1 Samuel 15:22

23For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubburnnesse is as iniquitie and idolatrie: because thou hast reiected the word of the Lord, he hath also reiected thee from being king.Select 1 Samuel 15:23

24And Saul said vnto Samuel, I haue sinned: for I haue transgressed the Commandement of the Lord, and thy wordes; because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.Select 1 Samuel 15:24

25Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sinne, and turne againe with me, that I may worship the Lord.Select 1 Samuel 15:25

26And Samuel said vnto Saul, I will not returne with thee: for thou hast reiected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath reiected thee from being king ouer Israel.Select 1 Samuel 15:26

27And as Samuel turned about to goe away, he laid hold vpon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.Select 1 Samuel 15:27

28And Samuel said vnto him, The Lord hath rent the kingdome of Israel from thee this day, and hath giuen it to a neighbour of thine, that is better then thou.Select 1 Samuel 15:28

29And also the strength of Israel will not lie, nor repent: for he is not a man that he should repent.Select 1 Samuel 15:29

30Then he said, I haue sinned; yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the Elders of my people, and before Israel, and turne againe with me, that I may worship the Lord thy God.Select 1 Samuel 15:30

31So Samuel turned againe after Saul, and Saul worshipped the Lord.Select 1 Samuel 15:31

32Then said Samuel, Bring you hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites: and Agag came vnto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitternesse of death is past.Select 1 Samuel 15:32

33And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childlesse, so shall thy mother bee childlesse among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.Select 1 Samuel 15:33

34Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went vp to his house to Gibeah of Saul.Select 1 Samuel 15:34

35And Samuel came no more to see Saul vntill the day of his death: neuerthelesse, Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king ouer Israel.Select 1 Samuel 15:35