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15:20. And Saul said to Samuel: Yea, I have hearkened to the voice of
the Lord, and have walked in the way by which the Lord sent me, and have
brought Agag, the king of Amalec, and Amalec I have slain.
15:21. But the people took of the spoils, sheep and oxen, as the
firstfruits of those things that were slain, to offer sacrifice to the
Lord their God in Galgal.
15:22. And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and
not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is
better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat or
rams.
15:23. Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to rebel: and like the
crime of idolatry, to refuse to obey. Forasmuch, therefore, as thou hast
rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord hath also rejected thee from
being king.
15:24. And Saul said to Samuel: I have sinned, because I have
transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words, fearing the
people, and obeying their voice.
15:25. But now bear, I beseech thee, my sin, and return with me, that I
may adore the Lord.
15:26. And Samuel said to Saul: I will not return with thee, because
thou hath rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee
from being king over Israel.
15:27. And Samuel turned about to go away: but he laid hold upon the
skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
15:28. And Samuel said to him: The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel
from thee this day, and hath given it to thy neighbour who is better
than thee.
15:29. But the triumpher in Israel will not spare, and will not be moved
to repentance: for he is not a man that he should repent.
15:30. Then he said: I have sinned: yet honour me now before the
ancients of my people, and before Israel, and return with me, that I may
adore the Lord thy God.
15:31. So Samuel turned again after Saul: and Saul adored the Lord.
15:32. And Samuel said: Bring hither to me Agag, the king of Amalec. And
Agag was presented to him very fat, and trembling. And Agag said: Doth
bitter death separate in this manner? 15:33. And Samuel said: As thy
sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among
women. And Samuel hewed him in pieces before the Lord in Galgal.
15:34. And Samuel departed to Ramatha: but Saul went up to his house in
Gabaa.
15:35. And Samuel saw Saul no more till the day of his death:
nevertheless, Samuel mourned for Saul, because the Lord repented that he
had made him king over Israel.
Saw Saul no more till the day of his death... That is, he went no more
to see him: he visited him no more.
1 Kings Chapter 16
Samuel is sent to Bethlehem, where he anointeth David: who is taken into
Saul's family.
16:1. And the Lord said to Samuel: How long wilt thou mourn for Saul,
whom I have rejected from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil,
and come, that I may send thee to Isai, the Bethlehemite: for I have
provided me a king among his sons.
16:2. And Samuel said: How shall I go? for Saul will hear of it, and he
will kill me. And the Lord said: Thou shalt take with thee a calf of the
herd, and thou shalt say: I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.
16:3. And thou shalt call Isai to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee
what thou art to do, and thou shalt anoint him whom I shall shew to
thee.
16:4. Then Samuel did as the Lord had said to him. And he came to
Bethlehem, and the ancients of the city wondered, and meeting him, they
said: Is thy coming hither peaceable?
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