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I Samuel Chapter 15

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Samuel confronts David with a message that the people have chosen him as king, but David refuses to listen, leading to a painful confrontation. The chapter shows the tension between divine judgment and human pride, emphasizing that true leadership requires humility.

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(1) Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.
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I Samuel 15:17I Samuel 15:18I Samuel 9:16I Samuel 10:1I Samuel 15:16I Samuel 12:14I Samuel 13:13II Samuel 23:2II Samuel 23:3I Chronicles 22:12I Chronicles 22:13Psalms 2:10

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I Samuel 8:22I Samuel 3:10

(2) Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
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Jeremiah 31:34Hosea 7:2Amos 8:7Exodus 17:8Exodus 17:9Exodus 17:10Exodus 17:11Exodus 17:12Exodus 17:13Exodus 17:14Exodus 17:15Exodus 17:16

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Leviticus 26:42I Samuel 15:5Zechariah 8:9Zechariah 1:3

(3) Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
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Leviticus 27:28Leviticus 27:29Numbers 24:20Deuteronomy 13:15Deuteronomy 13:16Deuteronomy 20:16Deuteronomy 20:17Deuteronomy 20:18Joshua 6:17Joshua 6:18Joshua 6:19Joshua 6:20

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Exodus 22:1Joshua 6:21I Samuel 14:34I Samuel 15:9II Chronicles 20:23Exodus 22:4

(4) And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
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Joshua 15:24I Samuel 11:8I Samuel 13:15

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Numbers 11:32Exodus 16:18II Kings 13:7

(5) And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
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I Samuel 15:2Joshua 15:8Joshua 18:16

(6) And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
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I Samuel 27:10Numbers 24:21Numbers 24:22Judges 1:16Judges 4:11Judges 5:24I Chronicles 2:55Genesis 18:25Genesis 19:12Genesis 19:13Genesis 19:14Genesis 19:15

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Deuteronomy 4:9II Samuel 14:11Psalms 106:23Jeremiah 6:8I Samuel 15:18Numbers 14:25

(7) And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
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I Samuel 14:48Job 21:30Ecclesiastes 8:13Genesis 2:11Genesis 25:18I Samuel 27:8Genesis 16:7

(8) And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
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I Samuel 15:3Numbers 24:7I Kings 20:30I Kings 20:34I Kings 20:35I Kings 20:36I Kings 20:37I Kings 20:38I Kings 20:39I Kings 20:40I Kings 20:41I Kings 20:42

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I Samuel 15:9I Samuel 15:20I Samuel 15:32Genesis 7:23Deuteronomy 3:6Deuteronomy 4:26

(9) But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
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I Samuel 15:3I Samuel 15:15I Samuel 15:19Joshua 7:21II Samuel 6:13

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I Samuel 15:15I Samuel 15:21Deuteronomy 3:6Deuteronomy 4:26Exodus 22:1Joshua 6:21

(10) Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,
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I Samuel 3:10

(11) It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
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I Samuel 15:35Genesis 6:6II Samuel 24:16Psalms 110:4Jeremiah 18:7Jeremiah 18:8Jeremiah 18:9Jeremiah 18:10Amos 7:3Jonah 3:10Jonah 4:2Joshua 22:16

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II Kings 1:5Nehemiah 2:15I Samuel 10:9Psalms 78:57Jeremiah 46:5I Samuel 7:9

(12) And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
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I Samuel 25:2Joshua 15:55I Kings 18:42I Samuel 7:12Joshua 4:8Joshua 4:9II Samuel 18:18

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I Samuel 3:10I Samuel 3:15I Samuel 16:13I Samuel 9:26I Samuel 13:8I Samuel 15:33

(13) And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.
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I Samuel 13:10Genesis 14:19Judges 17:2Ruth 3:10I Samuel 15:9I Samuel 15:11Genesis 3:12Proverbs 27:2Proverbs 28:13Proverbs 30:13Proverbs 31:31Luke 17:10

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Numbers 9:23I John 2:7I Samuel 3:10

(14) And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
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Psalms 36:2Psalms 50:16Psalms 50:17Psalms 50:18Psalms 50:19Psalms 50:20Psalms 50:21Jeremiah 2:18Jeremiah 2:19Jeremiah 2:22Jeremiah 2:23Jeremiah 2:34

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Exodus 22:1I Samuel 16:11I Kings 4:23I Chronicles 12:40John 10:12I Samuel 11:7

(15) And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
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I Samuel 15:9I Samuel 15:21Genesis 3:12Genesis 3:13Exodus 32:22Exodus 32:23Job 31:33Proverbs 28:13Matthew 2:8Luke 10:29

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I Samuel 15:9I Samuel 15:21Exodus 22:1Exodus 20:24Deuteronomy 28:51Joshua 6:21

(16) Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
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I Samuel 9:27I Samuel 12:7I Kings 22:16

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Isaiah 3:1I Samuel 3:10

(17) And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?
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I Samuel 9:21I Samuel 10:22Judges 6:15Hosea 13:1Matthew 18:4I Samuel 15:1I Samuel 15:2I Samuel 15:3I Samuel 10:1

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Ezekiel 16:4Ezekiel 16:5Ezekiel 16:6Ezekiel 16:13Ezekiel 16:22Ezekiel 26:17

(18) And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
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Genesis 13:13Genesis 15:16Numbers 16:38Job 31:3Proverbs 10:29Proverbs 13:21

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Joshua 11:20I Samuel 15:6I Samuel 15:9II Chronicles 20:23Amos 9:8

(19) Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
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Proverbs 15:27Jeremiah 7:11Habakkuk 2:9Habakkuk 2:10Habakkuk 2:11Habakkuk 2:12II Timothy 4:10II Chronicles 33:2II Chronicles 33:6II Chronicles 36:12

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Isaiah 57:9Genesis 31:27Deuteronomy 33:8II Samuel 12:21II Chronicles 2:3II Chronicles 34:27

(20) And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
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I Samuel 15:13Job 33:9Job 34:5Job 35:2Job 40:8Matthew 19:20Luke 10:29Luke 18:11Romans 10:3I Samuel 15:3I Samuel 15:8

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I Samuel 15:32I Samuel 15:8I Samuel 15:9Deuteronomy 3:6Deuteronomy 4:26I Samuel 15:15

(21) But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
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I Samuel 15:15Genesis 3:13Exodus 32:22Exodus 32:23

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I Samuel 15:9I Samuel 15:15Exodus 22:1Exodus 20:24Deuteronomy 28:51Joshua 6:21

(22) And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
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Psalms 50:8Psalms 50:9Psalms 51:16Psalms 51:17Proverbs 21:3Isaiah 1:11Isaiah 1:12Isaiah 1:13Isaiah 1:14Isaiah 1:15Isaiah 1:16Isaiah 1:17

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I Kings 8:64II Chronicles 7:7Leviticus 4:35Isaiah 1:11Numbers 29:39I Chronicles 29:21

(23) For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
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I Samuel 12:14I Samuel 12:15Numbers 14:9Deuteronomy 9:7Deuteronomy 9:24Joshua 22:16Joshua 22:17Joshua 22:18Joshua 22:19Job 34:37Psalms 107:11Jeremiah 28:16

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I Samuel 8:7I Samuel 15:26

(24) And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
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I Samuel 15:30Exodus 9:27Exodus 10:16Numbers 22:34II Samuel 12:13Matthew 27:4I Samuel 15:9I Samuel 15:15Exodus 23:2Job 31:34Proverbs 29:25Isaiah 51:12

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I Samuel 3:15I Samuel 12:18Numbers 9:23I John 2:7Jeremiah 33:8I Samuel 3:10

(25) Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.
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Exodus 10:17

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Ezekiel 33:11II Kings 5:18

(26) And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.
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I Samuel 15:31Genesis 42:38Genesis 43:11Genesis 43:12Genesis 43:13Genesis 43:14Luke 24:28Luke 24:29II John 1:11I Samuel 15:23I Samuel 2:30I Samuel 13:14

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I Samuel 8:7Song of Solomon 6:13I Samuel 15:23Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55

(27) And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
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I Kings 2:28I Samuel 10:25Luke 23:26Zechariah 8:23I Samuel 3:10

(28) And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.
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I Samuel 28:17I Samuel 28:18I Kings 11:30I Kings 11:31I Samuel 2:7I Samuel 2:8Jeremiah 27:5Jeremiah 27:6Daniel 4:17Daniel 4:32John 19:11Romans 13:1

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I Samuel 3:10

(29) And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
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Deuteronomy 33:27Psalms 29:11Psalms 68:35Isaiah 45:24Joel 3:16II Corinthians 12:9Philippians 4:13Numbers 14:28Numbers 14:29Numbers 23:19Psalms 95:11Ezekiel 24:14

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II Corinthians 7:8Revelation 2:5Numbers 23:19

(30) Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.
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Habakkuk 2:4John 5:44John 12:43Isaiah 29:13Luke 18:9Luke 18:10Luke 18:11Luke 18:12Luke 18:13Luke 18:14II Timothy 3:5

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Ezekiel 33:11

(31) So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.
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I Samuel 3:10

(32) Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
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Jeremiah 48:44I Thessalonians 5:3Revelation 18:7

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I Samuel 15:20I Samuel 15:33I Samuel 15:8Jeremiah 44:25I Samuel 16:11Numbers 24:7

(33) And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
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Genesis 9:6Exodus 17:11Numbers 14:45Judges 1:7Matthew 7:2James 2:13Revelation 16:6Revelation 18:6Numbers 25:7Numbers 25:8I Kings 18:40Isaiah 34:6

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I Samuel 3:10I Samuel 15:32I Samuel 13:8I Samuel 15:12Luke 12:53Exodus 1:19

(34) Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
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I Samuel 11:4

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I Samuel 16:13I Samuel 19:18I Samuel 19:22I Samuel 3:10

(35) And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
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I Samuel 19:24I Samuel 15:11I Samuel 16:1Psalms 119:136Psalms 119:158Jeremiah 9:1Jeremiah 9:2Romans 9:2Romans 9:3Philippians 3:18Genesis 6:6

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I Samuel 3:10I Samuel 3:6I Samuel 3:9I Samuel 3:15I Samuel 3:16I Samuel 7:9

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