1 Samuel 15:3
3 Now go and strike Amalek and adevote to destruction all that he has, and do not spare him; but bput to death both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
1 Samuel 15:9
9 But Saul and the people aspared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and they were not willing to devote them to destruction; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.
1 Samuel 15:13-15
13 And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “aBlessed are you of Yahweh! I have established the word of Yahweh.” 14 But Samuel said, “aWhat then is this sound of the sheep in my ears and the sound of the oxen which I am hearing?” 15 And Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for athe people spared the best of the sheep and oxen, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God; but the rest we have devoted to destruction.”
1 Samuel 15:20-23
20 Then Saul said to Samuel, “aI did obey the voice of Yahweh and went on the way on which Yahweh sent me and have brought back Agag the king of Amalek and have devoted the Amalekites to destruction. 21 But athe people took some of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the choicest of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God at Gilgal.” 22 And Samuel said,
“aHas Yahweh as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
As in obeying the voice of Yahweh?
Behold, bto obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of adivination,
And insubordination is as bwickedness and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh,
cHe has also rejected you from being king.”
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