Day 101, 11 April 2026



1) 1 Samuel 15, 1 Samuel 16, 1 Samuel 17



1 SAMUEL 15



The Lord Rejects Saul



1 (1Sa 9:16; 10:1) Samuel said to Saul, "The Lord sent me to anoint you to be

king over His people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of

the words of the Lord.

2 (Dt 25:17-19; Ex 17:8-16) Thus says the Lord of Hosts,

'I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way,

when he came up from Egypt.

3 (Nu 24:20; Dt 20:16-18) Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy

all that they have, and do not have compassion on them but put to death

both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.' "

4 (Jos 15:24) So Saul summoned the people together, and numbered them

in Telaim, 200000 foot soldiers and 10000 men of Judah.

5 Then Saul came to the city of Amalek and laid an ambush in the valley.

6 (Jdg 1:16; Ex 18:19) Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart, go down from

among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For you showed kindness

to all the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites

departed from among the Amalekites.

7 (Ge 16:7; 25:18) Then Saul struck the Amalekites from Havilah

until you come to Shur, which is near Egypt.

8 (1Sa 30:1; Nu 24:7) He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive

and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

9 (1Sa 15:15; 15:3) But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best

of the sheep, oxen, fatlings, and lambs. And of all that was good, they were

not willing to utterly destroy them. But everything that was despised

and weak, that they completely destroyed.

10 Then came the word of the Lord to Samuel, saying,

11 (Ge 6:6; 1Sa 13:13) "I regret that I have set up Saul to be king because

he has turned back from following Me, and he has not carried out My words."

And it grieved Samuel, and he cried to the Lord all night.

12 (Jos 15:55; 1Sa 25:2) When Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning,

it was told Samuel, saying, "Saul came to Carmel and set himself up

a monument. Then he turned and has passed on down to Gilgal."

13 (Ge 14:19; Jdg 17:2) Samuel came to Saul. And Saul said to him,

"Blessed are you of the Lord. I have carried out the word of the Lord."

14 Samuel said, "Then what is the sound of this flock of sheep in my ears?

And the sound of the cattle which I am hearing?"

15 (1Sa 15:9; 15:21) And Saul said, "They have brought them from

the Amalekites. For the people spared the best of the sheep and oxen,

to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have utterly destroyed."

16 Then Samuel said to Saul,

"Stop, and I will tell you what the Lord spoke to me this night."

And he said to him, "Speak."

17 (1Sa 9:21; 10:22) Samuel said, "When you were little in your own sight,

were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed

you king over Israel?

18 And the Lord sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go and utterly destroy

the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are destroyed.'

19 (1Sa 14:32) Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? And why

did you rush upon the spoil and do evil in the sight of the Lord?"

20 (1Sa 15:13) And Saul said to Samuel, "I have obeyed the voice of the Lord.

And I have followed in the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought

Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

21 (1Sa 15:15; Ex 32:22-23) But the people took from the plunder sheep

and oxen, the first fruits of the banned things to sacrifice

to the Lord your God in Gilgal."

22 (Hos 6:6; Jer 7:22-23; Mic 6:6-8) Samuel said,

"Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices

as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord?

Obedience is better than sacrifice,

a listening ear than the fat of rams.

23 (1Sa 13:14 ) For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,

and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,

He has also rejected you from being king."

24 (2Sa 12:13; Pr 29:25) Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned. For

I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and your words,

because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

25 (Ex 10:17) Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me,

that I may worship the Lord."

26 (1Sa 13:14; 16:1) Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you.

For you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected

you from being king over Israel."

27 As Samuel turned about to go, he seized the edge of his robe and it tore.

28 (1Sa 28:17-18) Samuel said to him, "The Lord has torn the kingdom

of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours

who is better than you.

29 (Nu 23:19; Eze 24:14; Titus 1:2) Also the Strength of Israel will not

lie nor repent. For He is not a man, that He should repent."

30 (Jn 5:44; 12:43) Then he said, "I have sinned, yet please honor me

before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn back with me,

that I may worship the Lord your God."

31 So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul worshipped the Lord.

32 Then Samuel said, "Bring me Agag the king of the Amalekites."

And Agag came to him reluctantly. But Agag said,

"Surely the bitterness of death is past."

33 (Jdg 1:7; Ge 9:6) Samuel said,

"As your sword has made women childless,

so will your mother be childless among women."

And Samuel hacked Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

34 (1Sa 11:4) Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up

to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

35 (1Sa 15:11; 16:1) Now Samuel did not see Saul up to the day of his death.

But Samuel mourned for Saul and the Lord regretted that he had made Saul

king over Israel.



1 Samuel 15

[1] Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king

over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of

the words of the LORD.

[2] Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to

Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

[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.

[4] And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two

hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

[5] And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

[6] And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the

Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the

children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed

from among the Amalekites.

[7] And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur,

that is over against Egypt.

[8] And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed

all the people with the edge of the sword.

[9] But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of

the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and

would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse,

that they destroyed utterly.

[10] Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,

[11] It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned

back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it

grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.

[12] And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told

Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and

is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

[13] And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the

LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.

[14] And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine

ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

[15] And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the

people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the

LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

[16] Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD

hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.

[17] And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou

not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king

over Israel?

[18] And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy

the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

[19] Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly

upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?

[20] And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD,

and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king

of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

[21] But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the

things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD

thy God in Gilgal.

[22] And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and

sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better

than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

[23] For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as

iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he

hath also rejected thee from being king.

[24] And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the

commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and

obeyed their voice.

[25] Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that

I may worship the LORD.

[26] And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast

rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being

king over Israel.

[27] And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of

his mantle, and it rent.

[28] And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from

thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better

than thou.

[29] And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not

a man, that he should repent.

[30] Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the

elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may

worship the LORD thy God.

[31] So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.

[32] Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the

Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the

bitterness of death is past.

[33] And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy

mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the

LORD in Gilgal.

[34] Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of

Saul.

[35] And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death:

nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made

Saul king over Israel.