1 Samuel 15 And Samuel said unto Saul, `Me did Yahweh send to anoint you for king over His people, over Israel; and now, hearken to the voice of the words of Yahweh.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And Samuel said unto Saul, `Me did Yahweh send to anoint you for king over His people, over Israel; and now, hearken to the voice of the words of Yahweh. ² `Thus said Yahweh of Hosts, I have looked after that which Amalek did to Israel, that which he laid for him in the way in his going up out of Egypt. ³ Now, go, and you have smitten Amalek, and devoted all that it has, and you have no pity on it, and have put to death from man unto woman, from infant unto suckling, from ox unto sheep, from camel unto ass.. ⁴ And Saul summons the people, and inspects them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand [are] men of Judah. ⁵ And Saul comes in unto a city of Amalek, and lays wait in a valley;" ⁶ and Saul said unto the Kenite, `Go, turn aside, go down from the midst of Amalek, lest I consume you with it, and you did kindness with all the sons of Israel, in their going up out of Egypt;' and the Kenite turns aside from the midst of Amalek. ⁷ And Saul smites Amalek from Havilah--your going in to Shur, which [is] on the front of Egypt, ⁸ and he catches Agag king of Amalek alive, and all the people he has devoted by the mouth of the sword;" ⁹ and Saul has pity--also the people--on Agag, and on the best of the flock, and of the herd, and of the seconds, and on the lambs, and on all that [is] good, and have not been willing to devote them; and all the work, despised and wasted--it they devoted. ¹⁰ And the word of Yahweh is unto Samuel, saying, ¹¹ `I have repented that I caused Saul to reign for king, for he has turned back from after Me, and My words he has not performed;' and it is displeasing to Samuel, and he cries unto Yahweh all the night. ¹² And Samuel rises early to meet Saul in the morning, and it is declared to Samuel, saying, `Saul has come in to Carmel, and lo, he is setting up to himself a monument, and goes round, and passes over, and goes down to Gilgal.. ¹³ And Samuel comes in unto Saul, and Saul said to him, `Blessed [are] you of Yahweh; I have performed the word of Yahweh.. ¹⁴ And Samuel said, `And what [is] the noise of this flock in mine ears--and the noise of the herd which I am hearing?. ¹⁵ And Saul said, `From Amalek they have brought them, because the people had pity on the best of the flock, and of the herd, in order to sacrifice to Yahweh your Elohim, and the remnant we have devoted.. ¹⁶ And Samuel said unto Saul, `Desist, and I declare to you that which Yahweh has spoken unto me to-night;' and he said to him, `Speak.. ¹⁷ And Samuel said, `Are not you, if you [are] little in your own eyes, head of the tribes of Israel? and Yahweh does anoint you for king over Israel, ¹⁸ and Yahweh sends you in the way, and said, Go, and you have devoted the sinners, the Amalekite, and fought against them till they are consumed;" ¹⁹ and why have you not hearkened to the voice of Yahweh--and do fly unto the spoil, and do do the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh?. ²⁰ And Saul said unto Samuel, `Because--I have hearkened to the voice of Yahweh, and I go in the way which Yahweh has sent me, and bring in Agag king of Amalek, and Amalek I have devoted;" ²¹ and the people takes of the spoil of the flock and herd, the first part of the devoted thing, for sacrifice to Yahweh your Elohim in Gilgal.. ²² And Samuel said, `Has Yahweh had delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as [in] hearkening to the voice of Yahweh? lo, hearkening than sacrifice is better; to give attention than fat of rams;" ²³ for a sin of divination [is] rebellion, and iniquity and teraphim [is] stubbornness; because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, He also does reject you from [being] king.. ²⁴ And Saul said unto Samuel, `I have sinned, for I passed over the command of Yahweh, and your words; because I have feared the people, I also hearken to their voice;" ²⁵ and now, bear, I pray you, with my sin, and turn back with me, and I bow myself to Yahweh.. ²⁶ And Samuel said unto Saul, `I do not turn back with you; for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh does reject you from being king over Israel.. ²⁷ And Samuel turns round to go, and he lays hold on the skirt of his upper robe--and it is rent!" ²⁸ And Samuel said unto him, `Yahweh has rent the kingdom of Israel from you to-day, and given it to your neighbor who is better than you;" ²⁹ and also, the Pre-eminence of Israel does not lie nor repent, for He [is] not a man to be penitent.. ³⁰ And he said, `I have sinned; now, honor me, I pray you, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn back with me; and I have bowed myself to Yahweh your Elohim.. ³¹ And Samuel turns back after Saul, and Saul bows himself to Yahweh;" ³² and Samuel said, `Bring you nigh unto me Agag king of Amalek,' and Agag comes unto him daintily, and Agag said, `Surely the bitterness of death has turned aside.. ³³ And Samuel said, `As your sword bereaved women--so is your mother bereaved above women;' and Samuel hews Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal. ³⁴ And Samuel goes to Ramath, and Saul has gone unto his house--to Gibeah of Saul. ³⁵ And Samuel has not added to see Saul till the day of his death, for Samuel mourned for Saul, and Yahweh repented that He had caused Saul to reign over Israel.