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UST 1SA Chapter 15

1SA 15 ©

15One day Samuel said to Saul, “It was Yahweh who sent me to appoint you as king of the Israelite people. So he expects you to obey this message that he has given me for you. 2Yahweh, the commander of the heavenly armies, has declared this: ‘I am going to punish the descendants of Amalek for attacking the Israelite people when the Israelites left Egypt. 3So now go with your army and attack the Amalekites. Destroy all of the people and all of their possessions. Do not spare any of the people. Kill them all, even if they are women or young children who cannot fight against you. Do not spare any of the animals, even if you could use them for carrying things or for plowing or for wool and milk.’ ” 4So Saul summoned the Israelite army and gathered them near the city of Telaim. There were 10,000 soldiers from the tribe of Judah and 200,000 soldiers from the other Israelite tribes. 5Then Saul led his army to the main city in which the Amalekites lived. The army hid in a valley so that they could attack them suddenly. 6But first Saul sent a message to the Kenite people group who lived in that area. He told them, “Move away right now from where the Amalekites live. You acted kindly toward our Israelite ancestors when they left Egypt, and so we do not want to kill you when we kill them.” When the Kenites heard that, they immediately left the area where the Amalekites lived. 7Then Saul’s army slaughtered the Amalekites. They killed everyone who lived in the area between the city of Havilah in the east to the region of Shur in the west. Shur was at the border between Israel and Egypt. 8Saul’s army killed all of those Amalekites as Yahweh had commanded. However, Saul told the soldiers not to kill Agag, the king of the Amalekites. 9So Saul and his soldiers spared Agag. They also spared the best animals in the Amalekites’ flocks and herds. They looked for special animals and ones that would taste delicious. They kept animals like that and only destroyed animals that they considered to be worthless. 10Then Yahweh said to Samuel, 11“Saul has not done what I told him to do, and that shows that he is no longer obedient to me. As a result, I am sorry that I appointed Saul to be your king.” But when Samuel heard this, he became very upset. He prayed hard to Yahweh all that night to try to get him to change his mind. 12Samuel got started early the next morning so that he could go and speak with Saul. Someone told Samuel, “Saul went to the city of Carmel. He did that to set up a monument in his own honor. Then he left there and went to Gilgal.” 13When Samuel arrived at Gilgal and approached Saul, Saul said, “May Yahweh bless you! I have obeyed what Yahweh told me to do.” 14But Samuel replied, “If that is true, then I should not be hearing sheep bleating or cattle mooing, but I am!” 15Saul replied, “The soldiers wanted to save the best sheep and cattle so they could offer them as sacrifices to Yahweh, your God. So they took these animals from the Amalekites and brought them here. But we completely destroyed all the other animals that the Amalekites had.” 16Samuel said to Saul, “Stop talking! Allow me to tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.” Saul replied, “Tell me what he said.” 17Samuel said, “Previously you did not think that you were important. But Yahweh appointed you to be the king of Israel, so now you have become the leader of all the tribes of Israel. 18And Yahweh sent you to do something for him. He told you, ‘Go and get rid of all those Amalekites who sinned against me. Attack them and kill all of them.’ 19So you should have done what Yahweh told you to do! You should not have greedily taken for yourself what the Amalekites had instead of destroying it! You have done something that Yahweh considers to be evil.” 20Saul replied to Samuel, “But I did do what Yahweh sent me to do! While it is true that I brought back the Amalekite king Agag, I and my soldiers killed all the other Amalekites! 21And my men brought back only the best of the sheep and cattle and other things so that we could sacrifice them to Yahweh your God once we got here to Gilgal.” 22But Samuel replied,

“It pleases Yahweh more when people do what he tells them to do

than when they completely burn animals as sacrifices to him and offer him other kinds of sacrifices.

It is much better to obey Yahweh than to offer sacrifices to him.

It is better to pay attention to what he says and do it than to burn the fat of rams as a sacrifice to him.

23To rebel against God is as sinful as doing sorcery,

and stubbornly resisting his correction is as sinful as worshiping idols.

You have disobeyed what Yahweh told you to do,

and as a result, he has decided that you will no longer be king.”

24Then Saul said to Samuel, “I admit that I have sinned. I disobeyed what you told me Yahweh had commanded. I did that because I was afraid of what the soldiers would do to me if I did not give them what they wanted. 25But please forgive me for sinning. Come back with me and sacrifice some of these animals yourself so that I can worship Yahweh.” 26But Samuel replied, “No, I will not go back with you. You have chosen to disobey what Yahweh commanded you to do. So he has decided that you will no longer be the king of Israel. 27Then Samuel turned to leave, Saul tried to stop him by grabbing the edge of his robe, and when he did that, he tore off a piece of it. 28Samuel said to him, “You have taken this piece away from my robe, and in the same way, Yahweh has now taken the kingship of Israel away from you. He is going to make another Israelite king instead of you. That other Israelite is a better man than you are. 29You can be sure of this because when the glorious God whom the Israelite people worship says something, he means it and he will not change his mind about it. Humans sometimes change their minds, but God does not do that, because he is not a human.” 30Then Saul pleaded with Samuel further. He said, “I admit that I have sinned. But please honor me in front of the Israelite leaders and people by coming with me so that I can worship Yahweh your God.” 31So Samuel finally agreed to do that. They went together back to where the people were, and Saul worshiped Yahweh there. 32Then Samuel said, “Bring the Amalekite king Agag to me.” So they brought Agag to him. They had tied him up as a prisoner. Agag was thinking, “Now that Samuel is here, I am sure that the Israelites are not going to execute me painfully.” 33But Samuel said to him,

“You have led armies that have killed the sons of many women with their swords.

So now your mother will no longer have a son as other women do.”

Then Samuel chopped Agag into pieces with his sword. He did that at Gilgal, where the Israelites worshiped Yahweh. 34Then Samuel left there and returned to his home in Ramah, and Saul went to his home in Gibeah. 35Samuel never saw Saul again for as long as he lived. He remained very sad that Saul had not been a good king. And Yahweh regretted that he had appointed Saul to be the king of Israel. 200,000 soldiers; 10,000 of them were from Judah, and the others were from the other Israelite tribes.

1SA 15 ©

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