1 Samuel 3:18
18So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. And he said, a“It is the Lord. Let him do what seems good to him.”1 Samuel 15:16-24
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, b“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. 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.
2 Samuel 12:7-12
7Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, l‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. 8And I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. 9 mWhy have you despised the word of the Lord, nto do what is evil in his sight? oYou have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and phave taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ 11Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12For you did it secretly, qbut I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’”1 Kings 21:19
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: r“In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood.”’”1 Kings 22:14
14But Micaiah said, s“As the Lord lives, twhat the Lord says to me, that I will speak.”Ezekiel 2:7
7And you shall speak my words to them, uwhether they hear or refuse to hear, for they are a rebellious house.Matthew 14:4
4because John had been saying to him, v“It is not lawful for you to have her.”
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