1 Samuel 15:22 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²² 7 And Samuel turned about to go away: but he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to hearken than the fat of rams.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² Samuel said, Has the Lord as great a delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² And Samuel said, Hath Jehovah as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

Common English Bible

²² Then Samuel replied, “Does the LORD want entirely burned offerings and sacrifices as much as obedience to the LORD? Listen to this: obeying is better than sacrificing, paying attention is better than fat from rams,

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² And Samuel said: "Does the Lord want holocausts and victims, and not instead that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifice. And to heed is greater than to offer the fat of rams.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices; and to hearken rather than to offer the fat of rams.

1 Samuel 15:22 Cross References

Genesis 4:4

Abel also offered of the firstlings of his flock, and of their fat: and the Lord had respect to Abel, and to his offerings.

Exodus 19:5

And all the people answered together: All that the Lord hath spoken, we will do. And when Moses had related the people's words to the Lord,

Proverbs 21:3

0 The soul of the wicked desireth evil, he will not have pity on his neighbour.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:

Jeremiah 11:4

2 And the cities of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall go, and cry to the gods to whom they offer sacrifice, and they shall not save them in the time of their affliction.

Jeremiah 11:7

5 What is the meaning that my beloved hath wrought muck wickedness in my house? shall the holy flesh take away from thee thy crimes, in which thou hast boasted?

Jeremiah 26:13

1 And Joakim, and all his men in power, and his princes heard these words: and the king sought to put him to death. And Urias heard it, and was afraid, and fled and went into Egypt.

Hosea 6:6

They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.

Hosea 8:13

The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness.

Matthew 12:7

5 But Jesus knowing it, retired from thence: and many followed him, and he healed them all.

Matthew 23:23

1 Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.

Matthew 5:24

2 But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, excepting for the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.

Matthew 9:13

1 For she said within herself: If I shall touch only his garment, I shall be healed.

Mark 12:33

1 And Jesus sitting over against the treasury, beheld how the people cast money into the treasury, and many that were rich cast in much.

1 Samuel 13:12

7 And there went out of the camp of the Philistines three companies to plunder. One company went towards the way of Ephra to the land of Sual;

1 Samuel 13:13

8 And another went by the way of Beth-horon, and the third turned to the way of the border, above the valley of Seboim towards the desert.