come out unto you, and ye Ishall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.

hold, the LORD hath set a king over you.

14 If ye will fear the LORD 11 And it was so on the and serve him, and obey his morrow, that Saul put the peo- voice, and not rebel against the ple in three companies; and commandment of the LORD, they came into the midst of the then shall both ye and also the host in the morning watch, and king that reigneth over you slew the Ammonites until the continue following the LORD heat of the day: and it came your God: to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.

12 And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.

15 But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.

16 Now therefore stand and see this great thing which 13 And Saul said, There the LORD will do before your shall not a man be put to death this day for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.

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eyes.

17 Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.

15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made 18 So Samuel called unto Saul king before the LORD in the LORD; and the LORD sent Gilgal; and there they sacri- thunder and rain that day: and ficed sacrifices of peace offer- all the people greatly feared the ings before the LORD; and LORD and Samuel. there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

CHAP. XII.

AND Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.

13 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and be

19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not for we have added

unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.

20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;

21 And turn ye not aside : listines' garrison, that is on the for then should ye go after vain other side. But he told not his things, which cannot profit nor father. deliver; for they are vain.

NOW it came to pass upon a
day, that Jonathan the son 10
of Saul said unto the young Come
man that bare his armour, Come, go up
and let us go over to the Phi- livered

and this shall be a sign unto | sembled themselves, and they

us.

I came to the battle. 11 And both of them dis- 22 Likewise all the men of covered themselves unto the Israel which had hid themselves garrison of the Philistines: in mount Ephraim, when they and the Philistines said, Be- heard that the Philistines fled, hold, the Hebrews come forth even they also followed hard out of the holes where they had after them in the battle. hid themselves.

23 So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Beth-aven.

46 Then Saul went up from

12 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will following the Philistines: and shew you a thing. And Jona- the Philistines went to their than said unto his armour-own place.

bearer, Come up after me for 47 So Saul took the kingthe LORD hath delivered them dom over Israel, and fought into the hand of Israel. against all his enemies on every

13 And Jonathan climbed side, against Moab, and against up upon his hands and upon the children of Ammon, and his feet, and his armourbearer against Edom, and against the after him and they fell before kings of Zobah, and against Jonathan; and his armour- the Philistines: and whitherbearer slew after him. soever he turned himself, he vexed them.

14 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armour- 48 And he gathered an host, bearer made, was about twenty and smote the Amalekites, and men, within as it were an half delivered Israel out of the hands acre of land, which a yoke of of them that spoiled them. oxen might plow.

49 Now the sons of Saul

16 And the watchmen of were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin Melchi-shua: and the names of looked; and, behold, the mul- his two daughters were these; titude melted away, and they the name of the firstborn Mewent on beating down one an- rab, and the name of the other. younger Michal;

17 Then said Saul unto the 50 And the name of Saul's people that were with him, wife was Ahinoam, the daughNumber now, and see who is ter of Ahimaaz: and the name gone from us. And when they of the captain of his host was had numbered, behold, Jona- Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's than and his armourbearer were uncle. not there.

20 And Saul and all the people that were with him as

51 And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

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52 And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.

CHAP. XV.

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.

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.

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13 And Samuel came Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the command ment of the Lord.

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 15 And Saul said, They Egypt. So the Kenites depart- have brought them from the ed from among the Amalekites. Amalekites: for the people 7 And Saul smote the Ama- spared the best of the sheep and lekites from Havilah until thou of the oxen, to sacrifice unto comest to Shur, that is over the LORD thy God; and the against Egypt. rest we have utterly destroyed.

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

16 Then Samuel said unto | Because thou hast rejected the Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee word of the LORD, he hath what the LORD hath said to me also rejected thee from being this night. And he said unto king. him, Say on.

18 And the LORD sent thee 25 Now therefore, I pray on a journey, and said, Go and thee, pardon my sin, and turn utterly destroy the sinners the again with me, that I may worAmalekites, and fight against ship the LORD. them until they be consumed,

23 For rebellion is as the sin 31 So Samuel turned again of witchcraft, and stubbornness after Saul; and Saul worshipis as iniquity and idolatry. ped the LORD.