1 Samuel 15:23

Overview - 1 Samuel 15
Samuel sends Saul to destroy Amalek.
Saul favours the Kenites.
He spares Agag and the best of the spoil.
10 Samuel denounces unto Saul God's rejection of him for his disobedience.
24 Saul's humiliation.
32 Samuel kills Agag.
34 Samuel and Saul part.
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1 Samuel 15:23  (King James Version)
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.
 


rebellion
1 Samuel 12:14 1 Samuel 12:15 Numbers 14:9 ; Deuteronomy 9:7 Deuteronomy 9:24 ; Joshua 22:16-19 ; Job 34:37 ; Psalms 107:11
Jeremiah 28:16 ; 29:32 Ezekiel 2:5-8

witchcraft
Hebrew divination.
Exodus 22:18 ; Leviticus 20:6 Leviticus 20:27 ; Deuteronomy 18:10 Deuteronomy 18:11 ; Isaiah 8:19 ; 19:3 Revelation 22:15

stubbornness
2 Corinthians 6:16 ; Galatians 5:20 ; Revelation 21:8

thou hast rejected
2:30 13:14 16:1 2 Kings 17:15-20 ; 1 Chronicles 28:9