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.
1 et dixit Samuhel ad Saul
me misit Dominus ut unguerem te in regem super populum eius Israhel
nunc ergo audi vocem Domini
2 haec dicit Dominus exercituum
recensui quaecumque fecit Amalech Israheli
quomodo restitit ei in via cum ascenderet de Aegypto
3 nunc igitur vade et percute Amalech
et demolire universa eius
non parcas ei
sed interfice a viro usque ad mulierem
et parvulum atque lactantem
bovem et ovem camelum et asinum
4 praecepit itaque Saul populo et recensuit eos quasi agnos
ducenta milia peditum et decem milia virorum Iuda
5 cumque venisset Saul usque ad civitatem Amalech
tetendit insidias in torrente
6 dixitque Saul Cineo
abite recedite atque descendite ab Amalech
ne forte involvam te cum eo
tu enim fecisti misericordiam cum omnibus filiis Israhel
cum ascenderent de Aegypto
et recessit Cineus de medio Amalech
7 percussitque Saul Amalech
ab Evila donec venias Sur
quae est e regione Aegypti
8 et adprehendit Agag regem Amalech vivum
omne autem vulgus interfecit in ore gladii
9 et pepercit Saul et populus Agag
et optimis gregibus ovium et armentorum
et vestibus et arietibus et universis quae pulchra erant
nec voluerunt disperdere ea
quicquid vero vile fuit et reprobum hoc demoliti sunt
10 factum est autem verbum Domini ad Samuhel dicens
11 paenitet me quod constituerim Saul regem
quia dereliquit me et verba mea opere non implevit
contristatusque est Samuhel et clamavit ad Dominum tota nocte
12 cumque de nocte surrexisset Samuhel ut iret ad Saul mane
nuntiatum est Samuheli eo quod venisset Saul in Carmelum
et erexisset sibi fornicem triumphalem
et reversus transisset descendissetque in Galgala
venit ergo Samuhel ad Saul
et
13 dixit ei Saul
benedictus tu Domino implevi verbum Domini
14 dixitque Samuhel
et quae est haec vox gregum quae resonat in auribus meis
et armentorum quam ego audio
15 et ait Saul de Amalech adduxerunt ea
pepercit enim populus melioribus ovibus et armentis
ut immolarentur Domino Deo tuo
reliqua vero occidimus
16 dixit autem Samuhel ad Saul
sine me et indicabo tibi quae locutus sit Dominus ad me nocte
dixitque ei loquere
17 et ait Samuhel nonne cum parvulus esses in oculis tuis
caput in tribubus Israhel factus es
unxitque te Dominus regem super Israhel
18 et misit te Dominus in via et ait
vade et interfice peccatores Amalech
et pugnabis contra eos usque ad internicionem eorum
19 quare ergo non audisti vocem Domini sed versus ad praedam es
et fecisti malum in oculis Domini
20 et ait Saul ad Samuhelem
immo audivi vocem Domini
et ambulavi in via per quam misit me Dominus
et adduxi Agag regem Amalech et Amalech interfeci
21 tulit autem populus de praeda oves et boves
primitias eorum quae caesa sunt
ut immolet Domino Deo suo in Galgalis
22 et ait Samuhel
numquid vult Dominus holocausta aut victimas
et non potius ut oboediatur voci Domini
melior est enim oboedientia quam victimae
et auscultare magis quam offerre adipem arietum
23 quoniam quasi peccatum ariolandi est repugnare
et quasi scelus idolatriae nolle adquiescere
pro eo ergo quod abiecisti sermonem Domini
abiecit te ne sis rex
24 dixitque Saul ad Samuhel
peccavi quia praevaricatus sum sermonem Domini et verba tua
timens populum et oboediens voci eorum
25 sed nunc porta quaeso peccatum meum
et revertere mecum ut adorem Dominum
26 et ait Samuhel ad Saul
non revertar tecum quia proiecisti sermonem Domini
et proiecit te Dominus ne sis rex super Israhel
27 et conversus est Samuhel ut abiret
ille autem adprehendit summitatem pallii eius quae et scissa est
28 et ait ad eum Samuhel
scidit Dominus regnum Israhel a te hodie
et tradidit illud proximo tuo meliori te
29 porro Triumphator in Israhel non parcet
et paenitudine non flectetur
neque enim homo est ut agat paenitentiam
30 at ille ait peccavi
sed nunc honora me coram senibus populi mei
et coram Israhel
et revertere mecum ut adorem Dominum Deum tuum
31 reversus ergo Samuhel secutus est Saulem
et adoravit Saul Dominum
32 dixitque Samuhel adducite ad me Agag regem Amalech
et oblatus est ei Agag pinguissimus
et dixit Agag sicine separat amara mors
33 et ait Samuhel
sicut fecit absque liberis mulieres gladius tuus
sic absque liberis erit inter mulieres mater tua
et in frusta concidit Samuhel Agag coram
Domino in Galgalis
34 abiit autem Samuhel in Ramatha
Saul vero ascendit in domum suam in Gabaath
35 et non vidit Samuhel ultra Saul usque ad diem mortis suae
verumtamen lugebat Samuhel Saul
quoniam Dominum paenitebat
quod constituisset regem Saul super Israhel