1 Samuel 15:11

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“Saul has stopped following me, so I am sorry that I made him king. He is not doing what I tell him.” Samuel became angry and cried to the Lord all night.

Cross References

1 Samuel 13:13

Samuel said, “You did a foolish thing. You did not obey the Lord your God. If you had done what he commanded, the Lord would have let your family rule Israel forever.

Genesis 6:6

The Lord was sorry that he had made people on the earth. It made him very sad in his heart.

Psalm 119:136

I have cried a river of tears because people don’t obey your teachings.

2 Samuel 24:16

The angel raised his arm over Jerusalem and was ready to destroy it, but the Lord felt very sorry about the bad things that had happened. He said to the angel who destroyed the people, “That’s enough! Put down your arm.” The Lord’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Jeremiah 9:18

The people say, ‘Let those women come quickly and cry for us. Then our eyes will fill with tears that flow over our eyelids like streams of water.’

Psalm 36:3

Their words are wicked lies. They have stopped doing anything wise or good.

1 Samuel 15:35

After that Samuel never saw Saul again. Samuel was very sad for Saul. And the Lord was very sorry that he had made Saul king of Israel.

1 Samuel 15:9

Saul and the Israelite soldiers felt bad about destroying everything. So they let Agag live. They also kept the fat cattle, the best sheep, and the lambs. They kept everything that was worth keeping. They didn’t want to destroy those things. They destroyed only what was not worth keeping.

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go fight against the Amalekites. You must completely destroy the Amalekites and everything that belongs to them. Don’t let anything live; you must kill all the men and women and all of their children and little babies. You must kill all of their cattle and sheep and all of their camels and donkeys.’”

Hebrews 10:38

The person who is right with me will live by trusting in me. But I will not be pleased with the one who turns back in fear.” Habakkuk 2:3-4 (Greek version)

Matthew 5:44

But I tell you, love your enemies. Pray for those who treat you badly.

Jeremiah 13:17

If you people of Judah don’t listen to him, I will hide and cry. Your pride will cause me to cry. I will cry very hard. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the Lord’s flock will be captured.

Jeremiah 9:1

If my head were filled with water, and if my eyes were a fountain of tears, I would cry day and night for my people who have been destroyed.

Psalm 125:5

But, Lord, when you punish those who do evil, also punish those who have stopped following your way. Let Israel always enjoy peace!

Psalm 110:4

The Lord has made a promise with an oath and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever— the kind of priest Melchizedek was.”

Psalm 109:4

I loved them, but they were against me. So I said a prayer.

Psalm 78:57

They turned against him and were unfaithful just like their ancestors. They changed directions like a boomerang.

1 Samuel 12:23

And as for me, I would never stop praying for you. If I stopped praying for you, I would be sinning against the Lord. I will continue to teach you the right way to live a good life.

Joshua 22:16

“All the Lord’s people sent us to ask you this: ‘Why did you do this thing against the God of Israel? Why did you stop following the Lord? Why did you build an altar for yourselves? You know that this is against the Lord’s command.

Luke 6:12

A few days later, Jesus went out to a mountain to pray. He stayed there all night praying to God.

Matthew 24:13

But the one who remains faithful to the end will be saved.

Psalm 78:41

Again and again they tested his patience. They really hurt the Holy One of Israel.

Zephaniah 1:6

They have turned away from me, the Lord. They have stopped following me. They no longer ask me, the Lord, for help.”

Jonah 4:2

He complained to the Lord and said, “Lord, I knew this would happen! I was in my own country, and you told me to come here. At that time I knew that you would forgive the people of this evil city, so I decided to run away to Tarshish. I knew that you are a kind God. I knew that you show mercy and don’t want to punish people. I knew that you are kind, and if these people stopped sinning, you would change your plans to destroy them.

Jonah 3:10

God saw what the people did. He saw that they stopped doing evil. So God changed his mind and did not do what he planned. He did not punish the people.

Amos 7:3

Then the Lord changed his mind about this. The Lord said, “It will not happen.”

Genesis 6:7

So the Lord said, “I will destroy all the people I created on the earth. I will destroy every person and every animal and everything that crawls on the earth. And I will destroy all the birds in the air, because I am sorry that I have made them.”

Exodus 32:11

But Moses begged the Lord his God, “Lord, don’t let your anger destroy your people. You brought them out of Egypt with your great power and strength.

Exodus 32:14

So the Lord felt sorry for the people. He did not do what he said he might do—he did not destroy them.

1 Samuel 8:6

So the elders asked for a king to lead them. Samuel thought this was a bad idea, so he prayed to the Lord.

1 Samuel 15:10

Then Samuel received this message from the Lord:

1 Chronicles 21:15

God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But when the angel started to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord saw it and felt sorry for all the suffering. So he said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Stop! That is enough!” This happened when the angel of the Lord was standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Job 34:27

He will do this because they rebelled against him and ignored what he wanted.

Jeremiah 11:10

They are committing the same sins that their ancestors did. Their ancestors refused to listen to my message. They followed and worshiped other gods. The family of Israel and the family of Judah have broken the agreement I made with their ancestors.”

Jeremiah 34:16

But now you have changed your minds. You have shown that you do not honor my name because each of you has taken back the male and female slaves that you had set free. You have forced them to become slaves again.’

Ezekiel 18:24

“Now, maybe good people might stop being good. They might change their lives and begin to do all the terrible things that evil people have done in the past. (The evil people changed, so they can live.) So if those good people change and become bad, God will not remember all the good things they did. He will remember that they turned against him and began to sin. So they will die because of their sin.

1 Samuel 16:1

The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you feel sorry for Saul? I have rejected him as king of Israel. Fill your horn with oil and go to Bethlehem. I am sending you to Jesse who lives in Bethlehem, because I have chosen one of his sons to be the new king.”

1 Kings 11:9

So Solomon did not remain faithful to the Lord, the God of Israel, even though God had appeared to him twice. The Lord became angry with him.

1 Chronicles 10:13

Saul died because he was not faithful to the Lord. He did not obey the Lord’s word. Saul also went to a medium and asked her for advice