1Sa 15:16-23, 2Sa 12:1, 24:11-12, 1Ki 21:18-20, Jer 21:11, 34:2 | ESV | STEP | Then Samuel said to Saul , Stop ! I will tell you what the Lord said to me this night . And he said to him, Speak .

1 Samuel 15:16-23

16 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! I will tell you what the Lord said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Speak.”

17 And Samuel said, ^a“Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel. 18 And 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.’ 19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? ^bWhy did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?” 20 And Saul said to Samuel, ^c“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 ^dBut 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,

^e“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, ^fto 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 ^gidolatry.
Because ^hyou have rejected the word of the Lord,
ⁱhe has also rejected you from being king.”

2 Samuel 12:1

Nathan Rebukes David

1 And the Lord sent ^jNathan to David. He came to him and said to him, ^k“There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.

2 Samuel 24:11-12

11 And when David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to ^lthe prophet Gad, David’s ^mseer, saying, 12 “Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the Lord, Three things I offer ^{▼▼Or hold over} you. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.’”

1 Kings 21:18-20

18 “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in ^oSamaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession. 19 And 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: ^p“In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood.”’”

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

Jeremiah 21:11

Message to the House of David

11 “And to the house of the king of Judah say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord,

Jeremiah 34:2

2 “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Go and speak to ^sZedekiah king of Judah and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: ^tBehold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.