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Now, therefore, listen to the message of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.<a id="ren09015001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015001-a">a</a> <span id="v09015002" class="ver">2</span>Thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> of hosts: I will punish what Amalek did to the Israelites when he barred their way as they came up from Egypt.<a id="ren09015002-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015002-b">b</a> <span id="v09015003" class="ver">3</span>Go, now, attack Amalek, and put under the ban<a id="rfn09015003-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn09015003-1">*</a> everything he has. Do not spare him; kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.”<a id="ren09015003-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015003-c">c</a></p> <p><span id="v09015004" class="ver">4</span>Saul alerted the army, and at Telaim reviewed two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah.<a id="rfn09015004-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn09015004-1">*</a> <span id="v09015005" class="ver">5</span>Saul went to the city of Amalek and set up an ambush in the wadi. <span id="v09015006" class="ver">6</span><a id="ren09015006-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015006-d">d</a> He warned the Kenites: “Leave Amalek, turn aside and come down so I will not have to destroy you with them, for you were loyal to the Israelites when they came up from Egypt.”<a id="rfn09015006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn09015006-1">*</a> After the Kenites left, <span id="v09015007" class="ver">7</span>Saul routed Amalek from Havilah to the approaches of Shur, on the frontier of Egypt.<a id="ren09015007-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015007-e">e</a> <span id="v09015008" class="ver">8</span>He took Agag, king of Amalek, alive, but the rest of the people he destroyed by the sword, putting them under the ban. <span id="v09015009" class="ver">9</span>He and his troops spared Agag and the best of the fat sheep and oxen, and the lambs. They refused to put under the ban anything that was worthwhile, destroying only what was worthless and of no account.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Samuel Rebukes Saul.</span> <span id="v09015010" class="ver">10</span>Then the word of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> came to Samuel: <span id="v09015011" class="ver">11</span>I regret having made Saul king, for he has turned from me and has not kept my command. At this Samuel grew angry and cried out to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> all night.<a id="ren09015011-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015011-f">f</a> <span id="v09015012" class="ver">12</span>Early in the morning he went to meet Saul, but was informed that Saul had gone to Carmel, where he set up a monument in his own honor, and that on his return he had gone down to Gilgal. <span id="v09015013" class="ver">13</span>When Samuel came to him, Saul greeted him: “The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> bless you! I have kept the command of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.” <span id="v09015014" class="ver">14</span>But Samuel asked, “What, then, is this bleating of sheep that comes to my ears, the lowing of oxen that I hear?” <span id="v09015015" class="ver">15</span>Saul replied: “They were brought from Amalek. The people spared the best sheep and oxen to sacrifice to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God; but the rest we destroyed, putting them under the ban.” <span id="v09015016" class="ver">16</span>Samuel said to Saul: “Stop! Let me tell you what the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to me last night.” “Speak!” he replied. <span id="v09015017" class="ver">17</span>Samuel then said: “Though little in your own eyes, are you not chief of the tribes of Israel? The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> anointed you king of Israel<a id="ren09015017-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015017-g">g</a> <span id="v09015018" class="ver">18</span>and sent you on a mission, saying: Go and put the sinful Amalekites under a ban of destruction. Fight against them until you have exterminated them.<a id="ren09015018-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015018-h">h</a> <span id="v09015019" class="ver">19</span>Why then have you disobeyed the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>? You have pounced on the spoil, thus doing what was evil in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sight.”<a id="ren09015019-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015019-i">i</a> <span id="v09015020" class="ver">20</span>Saul explained to Samuel: “I did indeed obey the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> and fulfill the mission on which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> sent me. I have brought back Agag, the king of Amalek, and, carrying out the ban, I have destroyed the Amalekites. <span id="v09015021" class="ver">21</span>But from the spoil the army took sheep and oxen, the best of what had been banned, to sacrifice to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> your God in Gilgal.”<a id="ren09015021-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015021-j">j</a> <span id="v09015022" class="ver">22</span><a id="ren09015022-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015022-k">k</a> But Samuel said:</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">“Does the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices</p> <p class="sl1">as much as in obedience to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s command?</p> <p class="sl">Obedience is better than sacrifice,</p> <p class="sl1">to listen, better than the fat of rams.<a id="rfn09015022-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn09015022-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v09015023" class="ver">23</span>For a sin of divination is rebellion,</p> <p class="sl1">and arrogance, the crime of idolatry.</p> <p class="sl">Because you have rejected the word of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>,</p> <p class="sl1">the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> in turn has rejected you as king.”<a id="ren09015023-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015023-l">l</a></p> </div> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Rejection of Saul.</span> <span id="v09015024" class="ver">24</span>Saul admitted to Samuel: “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the command of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> and your instructions. I feared the people and obeyed them.<a id="ren09015024-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015024-m">m</a> <span id="v09015025" class="ver">25</span>Now forgive my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.” <span id="v09015026" class="ver">26</span>But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, because you rejected the word of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> and the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> has rejected you as king of Israel.”<a id="ren09015026-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015026-n">n</a> <span id="v09015027" class="ver">27</span>As Samuel turned to go, Saul seized a loose end of his garment, and it tore off.<a id="ren09015027-o" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015027-o">o</a> <span id="v09015028" class="ver">28</span>So Samuel said to him: “The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.<a id="ren09015028-p" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015028-p">p</a> <span id="v09015029" class="ver">29</span>The Glory of Israel neither deceives nor repents,<a id="rfn09015029-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn09015029-1">*</a> for he is not a mortal who repents.”<a id="ren09015029-q" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015029-q">q</a> <span id="v09015030" class="ver">30</span>But Saul answered: “I have sinned, yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel. Return with me that I may worship the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> your God.” <span id="v09015031" class="ver">31</span>And so Samuel returned with him, and Saul worshiped the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Samuel Executes Agag.</span> <span id="v09015032" class="ver">32</span>Afterward Samuel commanded, “Bring Agag, king of Amalek, to me.” Agag came to him struggling and saying, “So it is bitter death!” <span id="v09015033" class="ver">33</span>And Samuel said,</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">“As your sword has made women childless,</p> <p class="sl1l">so shall your mother be childless among women.”</p> </div> <p class="pcon">Then he cut Agag to pieces before the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> in Gilgal.<a id="ren09015033-r" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015033-r">r</a> <span id="v09015034" class="ver">34</span>Samuel departed for Ramah, while Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul. <span id="v09015035" class="ver">35</span>Never again, as long as he lived, did Samuel see Saul. Yet he grieved over Saul, because the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> repented that he had made him king of Israel.<a id="ren09015035-s" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en09015035-s">s</a></p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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