1 Samuel 15:15

God's Word

Saul answered, “The army brought them from the Amalekites. They spared the best sheep and cows to sacrifice to the Lord your God. But the rest they claimed for God and destroyed.”

Cross References

Job 31:33

“If I have covered my disobedience like Adam and kept my sin to myself,

Proverbs 28:13

Whoever covers over his sins does not prosper. Whoever confesses and abandons them receives compassion.

Matthew 2:8

As he sent them to Bethlehem, he said, “Go and search carefully for the child. When you have found him, report to me so that I may go and worship him too.”

Luke 10:29

But the man wanted to justify his question. So he asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

1 Samuel 15:16

“Be quiet,” Samuel told Saul, “and let me tell you what the Lord told me last night.” “Speak,” Saul replied.

1 Samuel 15:21

The army took some of their belongings—the best sheep and cows were claimed for God—in order to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”

1 Samuel 15:9

Saul and the army spared Agag and the best sheep and cows, the fattened animals, the lambs, and all the best ⌞property⌟. The army refused to claim them for God by destroying them. But everything that was worthless and weak the army did claim for God and destroy.