The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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1 Samuel 15:9 (KJV)
But 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.

 

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1 Samuel 15:10 (KJV)
Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,

 

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1 Samuel 15:11 (NASB)
[SUP]11 [/SUP] "I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following Me and has not carried out My commands." And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all night.

 

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1 Samuel 15:12 (KJV)
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.

 

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1 Samuel 15:13 (KJV)
And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.

 

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1 Samuel 15:14 (ESV)
And Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?”

 

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1 Samuel 15:15 (ESV)
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 devoted to destruction.”

 

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1 Samuel 15:16 (ESV)
Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! I will tell you what the LORD said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Speak.”

 

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1 Samuel 15:17 (NASB)
[SUP]17 [/SUP] Samuel said, "Is it not true, though you were little in your own eyes, you were made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the LORD anointed you king over Israel,

 

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1 Samuel 15:18 (KJV)
And 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.

 

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1 Samuel 15:19 (ESV)
Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD? Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the LORD?”

 

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1 Samuel 15:20 (KJV)
And 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.

 

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1 Samuel 15:21 (ESV)
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.”

 

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1 Samuel 15:22 (ESV)
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.

 

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1 Samuel 15:23 (ESV)
For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king.”

 

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1 Samuel 15:24 (NASB)
[SUP]24 [/SUP] Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; I have indeed transgressed the command of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and listened to their voice.

 

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1 Samuel 15:25 (NASB)
[SUP]25 [/SUP] "Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me, that I may worship the LORD."

 

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1 Samuel 15:26 (KJV)
And 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.

 

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1 Samuel 15:27 (ESV)
As Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

 

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1 Samuel 15:28 (ESV)
And Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.