1 Samuel 15:20

20 Disse Saul: “Mas eu obedeci ao SENHOR! Cumpri a missão que o SENHOR me designou. Trouxe Agague, o rei dos amalequitas, mas exterminei os amalequitas.

1 Samuel 15:20 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 15:20

And Saul said to Samuel, yea, I have obeyed the voice of the
Lord
Here Saul breaks in upon Samuel before he had declared all that the Lord had said unto him; for having expostulated with him for not obeying the voice of the Lord, he could not forbear interrupting him, but with the utmost assurance affirms he had obeyed the voice of the Lord; but then it was very imperfectly, and poor proof does he give of it:

and have gone the way which the Lord sent me;
it is very true he went into the country of Amalek, but he did not do there all the Lord commanded him:

and have brought Agag the king of Amalek;
took him alive, and brought him captive; whereas he ought to have destroyed him at once, and not have reserved him for triumph; a sad proof this of his obeying the voice of the Lord:

and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites;
all that came in his way, in which he did right; but then he had not destroyed the principal of them, their king.

1 Samuel 15:20 In-Context

18 e o enviou numa missão, ordenando: ‘Vá e destrua completamente aquele povo ímpio, os amalequitas; guerreie contra eles até que os tenha eliminado’.

19 Por que você não obedeceu ao SENHOR? Por que se lançou sobre os despojos e fez o que o SENHOR reprova?”

20 Disse Saul: “Mas eu obedeci ao SENHOR! Cumpri a missão que o SENHOR me designou. Trouxe Agague, o rei dos amalequitas, mas exterminei os amalequitas.

21 Os soldados tomaram ovelhas e bois do despojo, o melhor do que estava consagrado a Deus para destruição, a fim de os sacrificarem ao SENHOR, o seu Deus, em Gilgal”.

22 Samuel, porém, respondeu:“Acaso tem o SENHOR tanto prazer em holocaustos e em sacrifíciosquanto em que se obedeça à sua palavra?A obediência é melhor do que o sacrifício,e a submissão é melhor do que a gordura de carneiros.