1 Samuel 15

ECB(i) 1
YAH VEH REJECTS SHAUL AS SOVEREIGN
And Shemu El says to Shaul, Yah Veh sends me to anoint you sovereign over his people - over Yisra El: and now, hearken to the voice of the words of Yah Veh; 2 Thus says Yah Veh Sabaoth: I visit what Amaleq worked to Yisra El - how he set for him in the way in ascending from Misrayim. 3 Now go and smite Amaleq and devote all they have and spare them not; deathify both man and woman, from suckling and infant, ox and lamb, camel and he burro. 4 And Shaul hears the people and musters them in Telaim - two hundred thousand on foot and ten thousand men of Yah Hudah: 5 and Shaul comes to a city of Amaleq and lurks in the wadi. 6 And Shaul says to the Qayiniy, Go! Turn aside! Descend from midst the Amaleq lest I gather you with them: for you worked mercy to all the sons of Yisra El when they ascended from Misrayim. - and the Qayiniy turn aside from midst Amaleq. 7 And Shaul smites the Amaleq from Havilah until you come to Shur at the face of Misrayim: 8 and he apprehends alive Agag the sovereign of the Amaleq and devotes all the people with the mouth of the sword. 9 And Shaul and the people spare Agag and the best of the flock and of the oxen and of the second sort and the rams and all the good; and wills to not devote them: but they devote all the vile and molten. 10 And the word of Yah Veh comes to Shemu El, saying, 11 I sigh that I have Shaul to reign sovereign: for he turns back from after me and raises not my words. - and it inflames Shemu El and he cries to Yah Veh all night. 12 And Shemu El starts early to meet Shaul in the morning, and they tell Shemu El, saying, Shaul comes to Karmel; and behold, he stations himself a hand: and he goes around and passes on and descends to Gilgal. 13 And Shemu El comes to Shaul: and Shaul says to him, Blessed - you of Yah Veh: I raise the word of Yah Veh. 14 And Shemu El says, What then - this voice of the flock in my ears? And the voice of the oxen I hear? 15 And Shaul says, They bring them from the Amaleqiy: for the people spared the best of the flock and of the oxen, to sacrifice to Yah Veh your Elohim; and the remainder we devote. 16 Then Shemu El says to Shaul, Loosen up and I tell you what Yah Veh worded me this night. And he says to him, Word. 17 And Shemu El says, Is it not, though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the scions of Yisra El? And Yah Veh anoints you sovereign over Yisra El? 18 And Yah Veh sends you on a journey, and says, Go and devote the sinners the Amaleq! Fight them until you finish them off! 19 And why hearken you not to the voice of Yah Veh, but swoop on the spoil and work evil in the eyes of Yah Veh? 20 And Shaul says to Shemu El, Because - I heard the voice of Yah Veh and went the way Yah Veh sent me and brought Agag the sovereign of Amaleq and devoted Amaleq: 21 and the people took of the spoil - of the flock and oxen, the firstlings of the devoted, to sacrifice to Yah Veh your Elohim in Gilgal. 22 And Shemu El says, Delights Yah Veh in holocausts and sacrifices as much as in hearing the voice of Yah Veh? Behold, hearing is better than sacrificing; and hearkening, than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is the sin of divination and stubbornness, mischief and teraphim: because you refuse the word of Yah Veh he also refuses you from being sovereign. 24 And Shaul says to Shemu El, I sinned: for I trespassed the mouth of Yah Veh and your words: because I awed the people and heard their voice: 25 and now, I beseech you, lift my sin and turn back with me to prostrate to Yah Veh. 26 And Shemu El says to Shaul, I return not with you: for you refused the word of Yah Veh and Yah Veh refuses you from being sovereign over Yisra El. 27 And as Shemu El turns about to go away, he holds the border of his mantle - and it rips. 28 And Shemu El says to him, Yah Veh rips the sovereigndom of Yisra El from you this day; and gives it to your friend - better than you: 29 and also, the Perpetuity of Yisra El neither falsifies nor sighs: for he is no human, that he sighs. 30 Then he says, I sinned! Honor me now, I beseech you, in front of the elders of my people and in front of Yisra El and turn back with me, to prostrate to Yah Veh your Elohim. 31 - and Shemu El turns back after Shaul; and Shaul prostrates to Yah Veh. 32 And Shemu El says, Bring near me Agag the sovereign of the Amaleq. And Agag comes to him delicately: and Agag says, Surely the bitterness of death is turned aside. 33 And Shemu El says, As the sword bereaves women, thus be your mother bereft among women. - and Shemu El cleaves Agag in pieces at the face of Yah Veh in Gilgal. 34 And Shemu El goes to Ramah; and Shaul ascends to his house to Gibah of Shaul: 35 and Shemu El adds not to see Shaul until the day of his death: surely Shemu El mourns for Shaul: and Yah Veh sighs to have Shaul reign over Yisra El.