These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Samuel 15
Tanakh 35 verses
- 1 And said unto : ‘The sent me to anoint thee to be over His people, over ; now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of .
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Thus saith of hosts: I that which Amalek did to , how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of .
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- 3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.’
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And summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of .
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- 5 And came to the city of Amalek, and lay in wait in the valley.
- 6 And said unto the Kenites: ‘Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for ye showed kindness to all the children of , when they came up out of .’ So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
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And smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou goest to Shur, that is in front of .
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And he took Agag the of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
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But and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, even the young of the second birth, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them; but every thing that was of no account and feeble, that they destroyed utterly.
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- 10 Then came the of unto , saying:
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It repenteth Me that I have set up to be ; for he is turned back from following Me, and hath not performed My commandments.’ And it grieved ; and he cried unto all night.
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And rose early to meet in the morning; and it was told , saying: ‘ came to Carmel, and, behold, he is setting him up a monument, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to .’
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- 13 And came to ; and said unto him: ‘Blessed be thou of ; I have performed the of .’
- 14 And said: ‘What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I ?’
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And said: ‘They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to unto thy ; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.’
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Then said unto : ‘Stay, and I will tell thee what hath said to me this night.’ And he said unto him: ‘Say on.’
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And said: ‘Though thou be little in thine own sight, art thou not head of the tribes of ? And anointed thee over ;
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and sent thee on a journey, and said: Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
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- 19 Wherefore then didst thou not hearken to the voice of , but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst that which was evil in the sight of ?’
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And said unto : ‘Yea, I have hearkened to the voice of , and have gone the way which sent me, and have brought Agag the of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
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But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the devoted things, to unto thy in .’
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- 22 And said: ‘Hath as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, As in hearkening to the voice of ? Behold, to obey is better than , And to hearken than the fat of rams.
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For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as and teraphim. Because thou hast rejected the of , He hath also rejected thee from being .’
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1 Samuel 13:14 Deuteronomy 18:10-11 Isaiah 19:3 Job 34:37 Jeremiah 28:16 1 Samuel 2:30 2 Corinthians 6:16 1 Samuel 12:14-15 Genesis 31:34 Jeremiah 29:32 Ezekiel 2:5-8 Leviticus 20:27 Deuteronomy 9:24 1 Samuel 16:1 2 Kings 17:15-20 Revelation 21:8 Isaiah 8:19 Deuteronomy 9:7 Galatians 5:20 Leviticus 20:6 Psalm 107:11 Genesis 31:19 Numbers 14:9 1 Chronicles 28:9 Revelation 22:15 Exodus 22:18 Joshua 22:16-19 - 24 And said unto : ‘I have sinned; for I have transgressed the of , and thy words; because I feared the people, and hearkened to their voice.
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Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may .’
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- 26 And said unto : ‘I will not return with thee; for thou hast rejected the of , and hath rejected thee from being over .’
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And as turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his robe, and it rent.
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- 28 And said unto him: ‘The hath rent the of from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.
- 29 And also the Glory of will not lie nor ; for He is not a man, that He should .’
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Then he said: ‘I have sinned; yet me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before , and return with me, that I may thy .’
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- 31 So returned after ; and worshipped .
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Then said : ‘Bring ye hither to me Agag the of the Amalekites.’ And Agag came unto him in chains. And Agag said: ‘Surely the bitterness of death is at hand.’
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- 33 And said: As thy sword hath made women childless, So shall thy mother be childless among women. And hewed Agag in pieces before in .
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Then went to Ramah; and went up to his house to Gibeath-shaul.
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- 35 And never beheld again until the day of his death; for mourned for ; and repented that He had made over .