1 Samuel 15:20

New English Translation

Then Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the Lord! I went on the campaign the Lord sent me on. I brought back King Agag of the Amalekites after exterminating the Amalekites.

Cross References

Job 33:9

‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

Job 34:5

For Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.

Job 35:2

“Do you think this to be just: when you say, ‘My right before God.’

Job 40:8

Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

Matthew 19:20

The young man said to him, “I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws. What do I still lack?”

Luke 10:29

But the expert, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers – or even like this tax collector.

Romans 10:3

For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

1 Samuel 15:13

When Samuel came to him, Saul said to him, “May the Lord bless you! I have done what the Lord said.”

1 Samuel 15:3

So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”

1 Samuel 15:8

He captured King Agag of the Amalekites alive, but he executed all Agag’s people with the sword.

1 Samuel 28:18

Since you did not obey the Lord and did not carry out his fierce anger against the Amalekites, the Lord has done this thing to you today.