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1 Samuel 15:19-24

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19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD? 1Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the LORD?"
20 And Saul said to Samuel, 2"I have obeyed the voice of the LORD. I have gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction.
21 3But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal."
22 And Samuel said, 4"Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, 5to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and 6idolatry. Because 7you have rejected the word of the LORD, 8he has also rejected you from being king."
24 Saul said to Samuel, 9"I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
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1 Samuel 15:19-24 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 15

In this chapter are recorded the order Saul had from the Lord to destroy Amalek utterly, 1Sa 15:1-3 the preparation he made to put it in execution, and the success thereof, 1Sa 15:4-9 the offence the Lord took at his not obeying his order thoroughly, with which Samuel was made acquainted, and which grieved him, 1Sa 15:10,11, upon which he went out to meet Saul, and reprove him; and a long discourse upon the subject passed between them, the issue of which was, that by an irrevocable decree he was rejected from being king, 1Sa 15:12-31 and the chapter is concluded with an account of Samuel's hewing in pieces Agag king of Amalek, and of his final departure from Saul, 1Sa 15:32-35.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 9

  • 1. 1 Samuel 14:32
  • 2. ver. 13
  • 3. ver. 15
  • 4. Psalms 40:6-8; Psalms 50:8, 9; Proverbs 21:3; Isa. 1:11-13, 16, 17; Jeremiah 7:22, 23; Micah 6:6-8; Hebrews 10:6-9
  • 5. Ecclesiastes 5:1; Hosea 6:6; Matthew 9:13; Matthew 12:7; Mark 12:33
  • 6. See Genesis 31:19, 34
  • 7. ver. 26
  • 8. 1 Samuel 13:14
  • 9. [2 Samuel 12:13]
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