1 Samuel 15:23 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²³ For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and defiance is like wickedness  and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the  Lord, he has rejected you as king.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, He hath also rejected thee from being king.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim (household good luck images). Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

Common English Bible

²³ because rebellion is as bad as the sin of divination; arrogance is like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected what the LORD said, he has rejected you as king.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Therefore, it is like the sin of paganism to rebel. And it is like the crime of idolatry to refuse to obey. For this reason, therefore, because you have rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord has also rejected you from being king."

1 Samuel 15:23 Cross References

Genesis 31:19

When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

Genesis 31:34

Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of the camel, and sat on them. Laban searched the whole tent but found nothing.

2 Samuel 12:9

Why then have you despised the Lord’s command by doing what I consider  evil?  You struck down Uriah  the Hethite with the sword and took his wife as your own wife #– #you murdered him with the Ammonite’s sword.

2 Samuel 7:15

But my faithful love will never leave him  as it did when I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

1 Chronicles 10:13

Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the Lord because he did not keep the Lord’s word.  He even consulted a medium for guidance,

1 Chronicles 28:9

‘As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind,  for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought.  If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you for ever.

Job 34:37

For he adds rebellion to his sin; he scornfully claps  in our presence, while multiplying  his words against God.

Exodus 22:18

‘Do not allow a sorceress  to live.

Isaiah 19:3

Egypt’s spirit will be disturbed within it, and I will frustrate its plans. Then they will enquire of worthless idols, ghosts, mediums, and spiritists.

Isaiah 8:19

When they say to you, ‘Enquire of the mediums and the spiritists who chirp and mutter,’  shouldn’t a people enquire of their God?  Should they enquire of the dead on behalf of the living?

Jeremiah 16:12

You did more evil than your ancestors.  Look, each one of you was following the stubbornness of his evil heart, not obeying me.

Jeremiah 28:16

Therefore, this is what the Lord says: “I am about to send you off the face of the earth. You will die this year because you have preached rebellion against the Lord.” ’

Jeremiah 29:32

this is what the Lord says: I am about to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. There will not be even one of his descendants living among these people,  nor will any ever see the good that I will bring to my people #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #for he has preached rebellion against the Lord.” ’

Hosea 13:11

I give you a king in my anger and take away a king in my wrath.

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince,  without sacrifice  or sacred pillar,  and without ephod  or household idols.

Leviticus 20:27

‘A man or a woman who is  a medium or a spiritist must be put to death. They are to be stoned; their death is their own fault.’

Leviticus 20:6

‘Whoever turns to mediums  , or spiritists  and prostitutes himself with them, I will turn against that person and cut him off from his people.

Numbers 14:9

Only don’t rebel against the Lord, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land, for we will devour them.  Their protection  has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us. Don’t be afraid of them! ’

Acts 13:22

After removing him,  he raised up David as their king and testified about him, “I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after my own heart,  , who will carry out all my will.”

2 Corinthians 6:16

And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols?  For we  are the temple of the living God, as God said: I will dwell and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.   ,

Galatians 5:20

idolatry,  sorcery,  hatreds,  strife,  jealousy,  outbursts of anger,  selfish ambitions,  dissensions,  factions,

Deuteronomy 9:24

You have been rebelling against the Lord ever since I have  known you.

Deuteronomy 9:7

‘Remember  and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God in the wilderness. You have been rebelling against the Lord from the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place.

Joshua 22:15

They went to the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and told them,

Revelation 21:8

But the cowards, faithless,  detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars   #– #their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur,  which is the second death.’

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs,   the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practises falsehood.

1 Samuel 13:14

but now your reign will not endure.  The Lord has found a man after his own heart,  , and the Lord has appointed him as ruler over his people, because you have not done what the Lord commanded.’

1 Samuel 16:1

The Lord said to Samuel, ‘How long are you going to mourn for Saul,  since I have rejected him as king over Israel?  Fill your horn with oil  and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem  because I have selected for myself a king from his sons.’

1 Samuel 2:30

‘Therefore, this is the declaration of the Lord, the God of Israel: “I did say that your family and your forefather’s family would walk before me for ever.  But now,” this is the Lord’s declaration, “no longer! For those who honour me I will honour,  but those who despise me will be disgraced.

1 Samuel 28:3

By this time Samuel had died,  all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his city,  and Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land.