1 Samuel 15:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord and have gone the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag king of Amalek and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

American Standard Version (1901)

And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of Jehovah, and have gone the way which Jehovah sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

Common English Bible

“But I did obey the LORD!” Saul protested to Samuel. “I went on the mission the LORD sent me on. I captured Agag the Amalekite king, and I put the Amalekites under the ban.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And Saul said to Samuel: "On the contrary, I did listen to the voice of the Lord, and I walked in the way along which the Lord sent me, and I led back Agag, the king of Amalek, and I put to death Amalek.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Saul said to Samuel: Yea, I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord, and have walked in the way by which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalec, and Amalec I have slain.

1 Samuel 15:20 Cross References

Job 33:9

I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

Job 34:5

For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:

Job 35:2

Thinkest thou this to be thy right, Or sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God's,

Job 40:8

Wilt thou even disannul my judgement? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?

Matthew 19:20

The young man saith unto him, All these things have I observed: what lack I yet?

Luke 10:29

But he, desiring to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

Romans 10:3

For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

1 Samuel 15:13

And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

1 Samuel 15:8

And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

1 Samuel 28:18

Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD and didst not execute his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.