1 Samuel 15:9-11
9 aBut Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves ▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew term is uncertain
and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction. 10The word of the Lord came to Samuel: 11 c“I regret ▼
▼See also verses 29, 35
that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and ehas not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night. 1 Kings 20:34
34And Ben-hadad said to him, f“The cities that my father took from your father I will restore, and you may establish bazaars for yourself in gDamascus, as my father did in Samaria.” And Ahab said, “I will let you go on these terms.” So he made a covenant with him and let him go.1 Kings 22:31-37
31Now the king of Syria had commanded hthe thirty-two captains of his chariots, “Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.” 32And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is surely the king of Israel.” So they turned to fight against him. And Jehoshaphat cried out. 33And when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him. 34But a certain man drew his bow at random ▼▼Hebrew in his innocence
and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and carry me out of the battle, jfor I am wounded.” 35And the battle continued that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, until at evening he died. And the blood of the wound flowed into the bottom of the chariot. 36And about sunset a cry went through the army, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!” 37So the king died, and was brought to Samaria. And they buried the king in Samaria.
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