June
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Samuel 15, 16
1Sa
15:1 Samuel said to Saul, Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king
over his people, over Israel: now therefore listen you to the voice
of the words of Yahweh.
1Sa
15:2 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, I have marked that which Amalek did
to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up
out of Egypt.
1Sa
15:3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they
have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and
suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
1Sa
15:4 Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two
hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
1Sa
15:5 Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
1Sa
15:6 Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, go down from among the
Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to
all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the
Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
1Sa
15:7 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur,
that is before Egypt.
1Sa
15:8 He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly
destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
1Sa
15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep,
and of the cattle, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that
was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was
vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
1Sa
15:10 Then came the word of Yahweh to Samuel, saying,
1Sa
15:11 It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is
turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.
Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
1Sa
15:12 Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told
Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set him up a
monument, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.
1Sa
15:13 Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, Blessed are you by
Yahweh: I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.
1Sa
15:14 Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my
ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear?
1Sa
15:15 Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the
people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice
to Yahweh your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
1Sa
15:16 Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what
Yahweh has said to me this night. He said to him, Say on.
1Sa
15:17 Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight,
weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed
you king over Israel;
1Sa
15:18 and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly
destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they
are consumed.'
1Sa
15:19 Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but flew on the
spoil, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?"
1Sa
15:20 Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh,
and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the
king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
1Sa
15:21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and cattle, the chief
of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.
1Sa
15:22 Samuel said, Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings
and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is
better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
1Sa
15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is
as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of
Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king.
1Sa
15:24 Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed
the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the
people, and obeyed their voice.
1Sa
15:25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me,
that I may worship Yahweh.
1Sa
15:26 Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you; for you have
rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being
king over Israel.
1Sa
15:27 As Samuel turned about to go away, Saul
laid hold on the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
1Sa
15:28 Samuel said to him, Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from
you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better
than you.
1Sa
15:29 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is
not a man, that he should repent.
1Sa
15:30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, Please, before
the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me,
that I may worship Yahweh your God.
1Sa
15:31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh.
1Sa
15:32 Then said Samuel, Bring here to me Agag the king of the
Amalekites. Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, Surely the
bitterness of death is past.
1Sa
15:33 Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so your
mother will be childless among women. Samuel cut Agag in pieces
before Yahweh in Gilgal.
1Sa
15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to
Gibeah of Saul.
1Sa
15:35 Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death;
for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul
king over Israel.
1Sa
16:1 Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing
I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn with
oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have
provided me a king among his sons.
1Sa
16:2 Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me.
Yahweh said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to
sacrifice to Yahweh.
1Sa
16:3 Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall
do: and you shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.
1Sa
16:4 Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The
elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, Do you come
peaceably?
1Sa
16:5 He said, Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh:
sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. He sanctified
Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
1Sa
16:6 It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and
said, Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him.
1Sa
16:7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on
the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for Yahweh
sees not as man sees; for man looks at
the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
1Sa
16:8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He
said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
1Sa
16:9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, Neither has Yahweh
chosen this.
1Sa
16:10 Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel
said to Jesse, Yahweh has not chosen these.
1Sa
16:11 Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? He said,
There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is keeping the sheep.
Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him; for we will not sit down
until he come here.
1Sa
16:12 He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a
beautiful face, and goodly to look on. Yahweh said, Arise, anoint
him; for this is he.
1Sa
16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the
midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on
David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
1Sa
16:14 Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul, and an evil
spirit from Yahweh troubled him.
1Sa
16:15 Saul's servants said to him, See now, an evil spirit from God
troubles you.
1Sa
16:16 Let our lord now command your servants who are before you, to
seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp: and it shall
happen, when the evil spirit from God is on you, that he shall play
with his hand, and you shall be well.
1Sa
16:17 Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man who can play
well, and bring him to me.
1Sa
16:18 Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have
seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, and
a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a
comely person; and Yahweh is with him.
1Sa
16:19 Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me
David your son, who is with the sheep.
1Sa
16:20 Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a bottle of wine,
and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul.
1Sa
16:21 David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him
greatly; and he became his armor bearer.
1Sa
16:22 Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Please let David stand before me;
for he has found favor in my sight.
1Sa
16:23 It happened, when the evil
spirit from God was on Saul, that David took the harp, and played
with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil
spirit departed from him.