1 Samuel 15:20

New International Reader's Version

“But I did obey the Lord,” Saul said. “I went to do what he sent me to do. I completely destroyed the Amalekites. I brought back Agag, their king.

Cross References

Job 33:9

You said, ‘I’m pure. I have done no wrong. I’m clean. I’m free from sin.

Job 34:5

“Job says, ‘I’m not guilty of doing anything wrong. But God doesn’t treat me fairly.

Job 35:2

“Job, do you think it’s fair for you to say, ‘I am the one who is right, not God’?

Job 40:8

“Would you dare to claim that I am not being fair? Would you judge me in order to make yourself seem right?

Matthew 19:20

“I have obeyed all those commandments,” the young man said. “What else do I need to do?”

Luke 10:29

But the man wanted to make himself look good. So he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed. ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people,’ he said. ‘I am not like robbers or those who do other evil things. I am not like those who commit adultery. I am not even like this tax collector.

Romans 10:3

They didn’t know that God’s power makes people right with himself. They tried to get right with God in their own way. They didn’t do it in God’s way.

1 Samuel 15:13

When Samuel got there, Saul said, “May the Lord bless you. I’ve done what he directed me to do.”

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go. Attack the Amalekites. Completely destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare the Amalekites. Put the men and women to death. Put the children and babies to death. Also kill the cattle, sheep, camels and donkeys.’ ”

1 Samuel 15:8

Saul captured Agag, the king of the Amalekites. But he and his men totally destroyed with their swords all Agag’s people.

1 Samuel 28:18

You didn’t obey the Lord. You didn’t show his great anger against the Amalekites by destroying them. So he’s punishing you today.