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et dixit Samuhel ad Saul me misit Dominus ut unguerem te inregem super populum eius Israhel nunc ergo audi vocem Domini

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haec dicit Dominus exercituum recensui quaecumque fecitAmalech Israheli quomodo restitit ei in via cum ascenderet deAegypto

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nunc igitur vade et percute Amalech et demolire universaeius non parcas ei sed interfice a viro usque ad mulierem etparvulum atque lactantem bovem et ovem camelum et asinum

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praecepit itaque Saul populo et recensuit eos quasi agnosducenta milia peditum et decem milia virorum Iuda

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cumque venisset Saul usque ad civitatem Amalech tetenditinsidias in torrente

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dixitque Saul Cineo abite recedite atque descendite abAmalech ne forte involvam te cum eo tu enim fecistimisericordiam cum omnibus filiis Israhel cum ascenderent deAegypto et recessit Cineus de medio Amalech

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percussitque Saul Amalech ab Evila donec venias Sur quaeest e regione Aegypti

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et adprehendit Agag regem Amalech vivum omne autem vulgusinterfecit in ore gladii

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et pepercit Saul et populus Agag et optimis gregibus oviumet armentorum et vestibus et arietibus et universis quaepulchra erant nec voluerunt disperdere ea quicquid vero vilefuit et reprobum hoc demoliti sunt

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factum est autem verbum Domini ad Samuhel dicens

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paenitet me quod constituerim Saul regem quia dereliquitme et verba mea opere non implevit contristatusque est Samuhelet clamavit ad Dominum tota nocte

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cumque de nocte surrexisset Samuhel ut iret ad Saul manenuntiatum est Samuheli eo quod venisset Saul in Carmelum eterexisset sibi fornicem triumphalem et reversus transissetdescendissetque in Galgala venit ergo Samuhel ad Saul et

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dixit ei Saul benedictus tu Domino implevi verbum Domini

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dixitque Samuhel et quae est haec vox gregum quae resonatin auribus meis et armentorum quam ego audio

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et ait Saul de Amalech adduxerunt ea pepercit enim populusmelioribus ovibus et armentis ut immolarentur Domino Deo tuoreliqua vero occidimus

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dixit autem Samuhel ad Saul sine me et indicabo tibi quaelocutus sit Dominus ad me nocte dixitque ei loquere

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et ait Samuhel nonne cum parvulus esses in oculis tuiscaput in tribubus Israhel factus es unxitque te Dominus regemsuper Israhel

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et misit te Dominus in via et ait vade et interficepeccatores Amalech et pugnabis contra eos usque adinternicionem eorum

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quare ergo non audisti vocem Domini sed versus ad praedames et fecisti malum in oculis Domini

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et ait Saul ad Samuhelem immo audivi vocem Domini etambulavi in via per quam misit me Dominus et adduxi Agag regemAmalech et Amalech interfeci

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tulit autem populus de praeda oves et boves primitiaseorum quae caesa sunt ut immolet Domino Deo suo in Galgalis

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et ait Samuhel numquid vult Dominus holocausta autvictimas et non potius ut oboediatur voci Domini melior estenim oboedientia quam victimae et auscultare magis quam offerreadipem arietum

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quoniam quasi peccatum ariolandi est repugnare et quasiscelus idolatriae nolle adquiescere pro eo ergo quod abiecistisermonem Domini abiecit te ne sis rex

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dixitque Saul ad Samuhel peccavi quia praevaricatus sumsermonem Domini et verba tua timens populum et oboediens vocieorum

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sed nunc porta quaeso peccatum meum et revertere mecum utadorem Dominum

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et ait Samuhel ad Saul non revertar tecum quia proiecistisermonem Domini et proiecit te Dominus ne sis rex super Israhel

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et conversus est Samuhel ut abiret ille autem adprehenditsummitatem pallii eius quae et scissa est

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et ait ad eum Samuhel scidit Dominus regnum Israhel a tehodie et tradidit illud proximo tuo meliori te

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porro Triumphator in Israhel non parcet et paenitudine nonflectetur neque enim homo est ut agat paenitentiam

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at ille ait peccavi sed nunc honora me coram senibuspopuli mei et coram Israhel et revertere mecum ut adoremDominum Deum tuum

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reversus ergo Samuhel secutus est Saulem et adoravit SaulDominum

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dixitque Samuhel adducite ad me Agag regem Amalech etoblatus est ei Agag pinguissimus et dixit Agag sicine separatamara mors

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et ait Samuhel sicut fecit absque liberis mulieres gladiustuus sic absque liberis erit inter mulieres mater tua et infrusta concidit Samuhel Agag coram Domino in Galgalis

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abiit autem Samuhel in Ramatha Saul vero ascendit in domumsuam in Gabaath

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et non vidit Samuhel ultra Saul usque ad diem mortis suaeverumtamen lugebat Samuhel Saul quoniam Dominum paenitebat quodconstituisset regem Saul super Israhel

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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.

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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.

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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 Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

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

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And Saul 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 Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

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And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.

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And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

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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.

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Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,

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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.

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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.

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And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.

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And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.

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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.

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And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.

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And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbor of thine, that is better than thou.

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And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.

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Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor 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.

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

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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.

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And Samuel said, As the sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

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Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

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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.

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