| 15:1 | Samuel 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. |
| 15:2 | Thus 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. |
| 15:3 | Now 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. |
| 15:4 | And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. |
| 15:5 | And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. |
| 15:6 | And 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. |
| 15:7 | And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt. |
| 15:8 | And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. |
| 15:9 | 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. |
| 15:10 | Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying, |
| 15:11 | It 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. |
| 15:12 | 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. |
| 15:13 | And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD. |
| 15:14 | And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? |
| 15:15 | And 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. |
| 15:16 | Then 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. |
| 15:17 | And 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? |
| 15:18 | 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. |
| 15:19 | Wherefore 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? |
| 15:20 | 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. |
| 15:21 | But 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. |
| 15:22 | And 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. |
| 15:22 | 撒母耳說、耶和華喜悅燔祭和平安祭、豈如喜悅人聽從他的話呢．聽命勝於獻祭、順從勝於公羊的脂油。 |
| 15:22 | 撒母耳说，耶和华喜悦燔祭和平安祭，岂如喜悦人听从他的话呢。听命胜于献祭。顺从胜于公羊的脂油。 |
| psm:40:6 | Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. |
| psm:40:7 | Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, |
| psm:40:8 | I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. |
| psm:50:8 | I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. |
| psm:50:9 | I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. |
| isa:1:11 | To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. |
| isa:1:12 | When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? |
| isa:1:13 | Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. |
| jer:7:22 | For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: |
| jer:7:23 | But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. |
| mic:6:6 | Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? |
| mic:6:7 | Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? |
| mic:6:8 | He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? |
| mak:12:33 | And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. |
| heb:10:6 | In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. |
| heb:10:7 | Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. |
| heb:10:8 | Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; |
| heb:10:9 | Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. |
| ecc:5:1 | Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. |
| pro:21:3 | To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. |
| hos:6:6 | For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. |
| mat:9:13 | But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. |
| mat:12:7 | But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. |
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| 15:23 | For 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. |
| 15:24 | And 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. |
| 15:25 | Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD. |
| 15:26 | 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. |
| 15:27 | And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent. |
| 15:28 | And 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. |
| 15:29 | And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent. |
| 15:30 | Then 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. |
| 15:31 | So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD. |
| 15:32 | Then 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. |
| 15:33 | And 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. |
| 15:34 | Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul. |
| 15:35 | And 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. |
