1 Samuel 15:26

New Century Version

But Samuel said to Saul, “I won’t go back with you. You rejected the Lord’s command, and now he rejects you as king of Israel.”

Cross References

Genesis 42:38

But Jacob said, “I will not allow Benjamin to go with you. His brother is dead, and he is the only son left from my wife Rachel. I am afraid something terrible might happen to him during the trip to Egypt. Then I would be sad until the day I die.”

2 Samuel 12:9

So why did you ignore the Lord’s command? Why did you do what he says is wrong? You killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword of the Ammonites and took his wife to be your wife!

2 Samuel 7:15

I took away my love from Saul, whom I removed before you, but I will never stop loving your son.

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear this, people of the earth: I am going to bring disaster to the people of Judah because of the evil they plan. They have not listened to my messages and have rejected my teachings.

Hosea 13:11

So I gave you a king, but only in anger, and I took him away in my great anger.

Hosea 4:6

My people will be destroyed, because they have no knowledge. You have refused to learn, so I will refuse to let you be priests to me. You have forgotten the teachings of your God, so I will forget your children.

Acts 13:22

After God took him away, God made David their king. God said about him: ‘I have found in David son of Jesse the kind of man I want. He will do all I want him to do.’

2 John 1:11

If you welcome such a person, you share in the evil work.

1 Samuel 13:14

but now your kingdom will not continue. The Lord has looked for the kind of man he wants. He has appointed him to rule his people, because you haven’t obeyed his command.”

1 Samuel 15:23

Disobedience is as bad as the sin of sorcery. Pride is as bad as the sin of worshiping idols. You have rejected the Lord’s command. Now he rejects you as king.”

1 Samuel 15:31

So Samuel went back with Saul, and Saul worshiped the Lord.

1 Samuel 16:1

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

1 Samuel 2:30

“So the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I promised that your family and your ancestor’s family would serve me always.’ But now the Lord says: ‘This must stop! I will honor those who honor me, but I will dishonor those who ignore me.

1 Samuel 28:18

You did not obey the Lord; you did not show the Amalekites how angry he was with them. That’s why he has done this to you today.