1 Samuel 15:14-24

14And Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?” 15Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, afor the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.” 16Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! I will tell you what the Lord said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Speak.”

17And Samuel said, bThough you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel. 18And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ 19Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? cWhy did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?” 20And Saul said to Samuel, d“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 eBut 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.” 22And Samuel said,

f“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, gto obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.
23For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
and presumption is as iniquity and hidolatry.
Because iyou have rejected the word of the Lord,
jhe has also rejected you from being king.”
24Saul said to Samuel, k“I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

1 Samuel 22:14-15

14Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and captain over
Septuagint, Targum; Hebrew  and has turned aside to
your bodyguard, and honored in your house?
15Is today the first time mthat I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all this, nmuch or little.”

1 Kings 18:18

18And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have oabandoned the commandments of the Lord and pfollowed the Baals.

1 Kings 18:21

21And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long qwill you go limping between two different opinions? rIf the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” And the people did not answer him a word.

1 Kings 20:41-42

41Then he hurried to take the bandage away from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets. 42And he said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction,
That is, set apart ( devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
therefore tyour life shall be for his life, and your people for his people.’”

1 Kings 21:19-20

19And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: u“In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood.”’”

20Ahab said to Elijah, v“Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because wyou have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.

1 Kings 22:19-28

19And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: xI saw the Lord sitting on his throne, yand all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left; 20and the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another. 21Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ 22And the Lord said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be za lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’ 23Now therefore behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the Lord has declared disaster for you.”

24Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near aaand struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “How did the Spirit of the Lord go from me to speak to you?” 25And Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day when you go abinto an inner chamber to hide yourself.” 26And the king of Israel said, “Seize Micaiah, and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son, 27and say, ‘Thus says the king, acPut this fellow in prison and feed him meager rations of bread and water, aduntil I come in peace.”’” 28And Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, aethe Lord has not spoken by me.” And he said, afHear, all you peoples!”

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