1 Samuel 15 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And Shemu’ĕ

² “Thus said יהוה  of hosts, ‘I shall punish Amalĕ

³ ‘Now go, and you shall smite Amalĕ

⁴ Then Sha’ul summoned the people and mustered them in Tela’im, two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Yehuḏ

⁵ And Sha’ul came to a city of Amalĕ

⁶ And Sha’ul said to the Qĕ

⁷ And Sha’ul smote the Amalĕ

⁸ And he caught Agag sovereign of the Amalĕ

⁹ But Sha’ul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, and the cattle, and the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not put them under the ban. But all goods despised and worthless, that they put under the ban.

¹⁰ And the word of יהוה  came to Shemu’ĕ

¹¹ “I am grieved that I have set up Sha’ul as sovereign, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My words.” And it displeased Shemu’ĕ

¹² And Shemu’ĕ

¹³ And Shemu’ĕ

¹⁴ But Shemu’ĕ

¹⁵ And Sha’ul said, “They have brought them from Amalĕ

¹⁶ And Shemu’ĕ

¹⁷ And Shemu’ĕ

¹⁸ “And יהוה  sent you on the way, and said, ‘Go, and you shall put under the ban the sinners, the Amalĕ

¹⁹ “And why did you not obey the voice of יהוה, but swooped down on the spoil, and did evil in the eyes of יהוה ?”

²⁰ And Sha’ul said to Shemu’ĕ

²¹ “But the people took of the spoil, of the sheep and cattle, the best of that which should have been put under the ban, to slaughter to יהוה  your Elohim in Gilgal.”

²² Then Shemu’ĕ

²³ “For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is as wickedness and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of יהוה, He also does reject you as sovereign.”

²⁴ And Sha’ul said to Shemu’ĕ

²⁵ “And now, please pardon my sin, and return with me, and let me bow myself to יהוה.”

²⁶ But Shemu’ĕ

²⁷ And as Shemu’ĕ

²⁸ And Shemu’ĕ

²⁹ “Moreover, the Eminence of Yisra’ĕ

³⁰ Then he said, “I have sinned. But esteem me now, please, before the elders of my people and before Yisra’ĕ

³¹ And Shemu’ĕ

³² And Shemu’ĕ

³³ And Shemu’ĕ

³⁴ And Shemu’ĕ

³⁵ And Shemu’ĕ