1 Samuel 15:20

New American Bible - revised edition

Saul explained to Samuel: “I did indeed obey the Lord and fulfill the mission on which the Lord sent me. I have brought back Agag, the king of Amalek, and, carrying out the ban, I have destroyed the Amalekites.

Cross References

Job 33:9

“I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, there is no guilt in me.

Job 34:5

For Job has said, “I am innocent, but God has taken away what is my right.

Job 35:2

Do you think it right to say, “I am in the right, not God”?

Job 40:8

Would you refuse to acknowledge my right? Would you condemn me that you may be justified?

Matthew 19:20

The young man said to him, “All of these I have observed. What do I still lack?”

Luke 10:29

But because he wished to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity—greedy, dishonest, adulterous—or even like this tax collector.

Romans 10:3

For, in their unawareness of the righteousness that comes from God and their attempt to establish their own [righteousness], they did not submit to the righteousness of God.

1 Samuel 15:13

When Samuel came to him, Saul greeted him: “The Lord bless you! I have kept the command of the Lord.”

1 Samuel 15:3

Go, now, attack Amalek, and put under the ban everything he has. Do not spare him; kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.”

1 Samuel 15:8

He took Agag, king of Amalek, alive, but the rest of the people he destroyed by the sword, putting them under the ban.

1 Samuel 28:18

“Because you disobeyed the Lord’s directive and would not carry out his fierce anger against Amalek, the Lord has done this to you today.