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## 1 Samuel 15:11-24 in Context (Verses 8–27 KJV)
 
 [8 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/8) And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/9) 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.*
 
 [10 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/10) ¶ Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,
 
 [11 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/11) 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.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/12) 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.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/13) And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed *be* thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/14) And Samuel said, What *meaneth* then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
 
 [15 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/15) 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.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/16) 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.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/17) 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?
 
 [18 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/18) 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.*
 
 [19 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/19) 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?
 
 [20 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/20) 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.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/1-samuel/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.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/22) 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.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/23) 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.*
 
 [24 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/24) ¶ 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.
 
 [25 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/25) Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.
 
 [26 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/26) 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.
 
 [27 ](/kjv/1-samuel/15/27) And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
 
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