1 Samuel also said to Saul, Jehovah sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore listen you to the voice of the words of Jehovah.
2 Thus says Jehovah 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 donkey.
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 to the Kenites, Go, depart, get yourself 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 And Saul struck the Amalekites from Havilah until you come 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 everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
10 Then came the word of Jehovah to Samuel, saying,
11 [I] have sorrow since I appointed Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried to Jehovah all night.
12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, 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 to him, Blessed are you of Jehovah: I have performed the commandment of Jehovah.
14 And Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my 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 to Jehovah your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
16 Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what Jehovah has said to me this night. And he said to him, Say on.
17 And Samuel said, When you were little in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and Jehovah anointed you king over Israel?
18 And Jehovah sent you on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
19 Why then did you not obey the voice of Jehovah, but did fly upon the spoil, and did evil in the sight of Jehovah ?
20 And Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Jehovah, and have gone the way which Jehovah 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 to Jehovah your God in Gilgal.
22 And Samuel said, has Jehovah as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Jehovah ? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is like the sin of witchcraft and aggressiveness like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of Jehovah, he has also rejected you from being king.
24 And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of Jehovah, and your words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
25 Now therefore, I pray you, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah.
26 And Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of Jehovah, and Jehovah has rejected you 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 to him, Jehovah has rent the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, that is better than you.
29 And also the endurance of Israel will not lie nor be sorry: for He is not a man, that He should be sorry.
30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray you, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah your God.
31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshiped Jehovah.
32 Then said Samuel, Bring Agag the king of the Amalekites here. And Agag came to him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
33 And Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before Jehovah in Gilgal.
34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
35 And Samuel came to see Saul any more until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and Jehovah was sorry that He had made Saul king over Israel.