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chapter 15
1
And
Samuel said to Saul: The Lord sent me to anoint thee king over his People
Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the Lord:
2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have reckoned up all
that Amalec hath done to Israel: I how he opposed them in the way when they
came up out of Egypt.
3 Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly
destroy all that he hath: spare him not, nor covet any thing that is his: but
slay both man and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
4 So Saul commanded the people, and numbered them as
lambs: two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand of the men of Juda.
5 And when Saul was come to the city of Amalec, he laid
ambushes in the torrent.
6 And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart and get ye
down from Amalec: lest I destroy thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness to
all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. And the Cinite
departed from the midst of Amalec.
7 And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila, until thou comest
to Sur, which is over against Egypt.
8 And he took Agag the king of Amalec alive: but all
the common people he slew with the edge of the sword.
9 And Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of
the flocks of sheep and of the herds, and the garments and the rams, and all
that was beautiful, and would not destroy them: but every thing that was vile
and good for nothing, that they destroyed.
10 And the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying:
11 It repenteth me that I have made Saul king: for he
hath forsaken me, and hath not executed my commandments. And Samuel was
grieved, and he cried unto the Lord all night.
12 And when Samuel rose early, to go to Saul in the
morning, it was told Samuel, that Saul was come to Carmel, and had erected for
himself a triumphant arch, and returning had passed on, and gone down to
Galgal. And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul was offering a holocaust to the Lord
out of the choicest of the spoils which he had brought from Amalec.
13 And when Samuel was come to Saul, Saul said to him:
Blessed be thou of the Lord, I have fulfilled the word of the Lord.
14 And Samuel said: What meaneth then this bleating of
the flocks, which soundeth in my ears, and the lowing of the herds, which I
hear?
15 And Saul said: They have brought them from Amalec:
for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the herds that they might be
sacrificed to the Lord thy God, but the rest we have slain.
16 And Samuel said to Saul: Suffer me, and I will tell
thee what the Lord hath said to me this night. And he said to him: Speak.
17 And Samuel said: When thou wast a little one in thy
own eyes, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the Lord
anointed thee to be king over Israel.
18 And the Lord sent thee on the way, and said: Go, and
kill the sinners of Amalec, and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast
utterly destroyed them.
19 Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the
Lord: but hast turned to the prey, and hast done evil in the eyes of the Lord.
20 And Saul said to Samuel: Yea I have hearkened to the
voice of the Lord, and have walked in the way by which the Lord sent me, and
have brought Agag the king of Amalec, and Amalec I have slain.
21 But the people took of the spoils sheep and oxen, as
the firstfruits of those things that were slain, to offer sacrifice to the Lord
their God in Galgal.
22 And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and
victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For
obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the
fat of rams.
23 Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to rebel:
and like the crime of idolatry, to refuse to obey. Forasmuch therefore as thou
hast rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord hath also rejected thee from being
king.
24 And Saul said to Samuel: I have sinned because I
have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words, fearing the
people, and obeying their voice.
25 But now bear, I beseech thee, my sin, and return
with me, that I may adore the Lord.
26 And Samuel said to Saul: I will not return with
thee, because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath
rejected thee from being king over Israel.
27 And Samuel turned about to go away: but he laid hold
upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
28 And Samuel said to him: The Lord hath rent the
kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to thy neighbour who is
better than thee.
29 But the triumpher in Israel will riot spare, and
will not be moved to repentance: for he is not a mail that he should repent.
30 Then he said: I have sinned: yet honour me now
before the ancients of my people, and before Israel, and return with me, that I
may adore the Lord thy God.
31 So Samuel turned again after Saul: and Saul adored
the Lord.
32 And Samuel said: Bring hitherto me Agag the king of
Amalec. And Agag was presented to him very fat, and trembling. And Agag said:
Doth bitter death separate in this manner?
33 And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women
childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed him
in pieces before the Lord in Galgal.
34 And Samuel departed to Ramatha: but Saul went up to
his house in Gabaa.
35 And Samuel saw Saul no more till the day of his
death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul, because the Lord repented that he
had made him king over Israel.
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