1 Samuel 13:13

13:13 Then Samuel said to Saul, “You have made a foolish choice! You have not obeyed 1  the commandment that the Lord your God gave 2  you. Had you done that, the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever!

1 Samuel 15:2

15:2 Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed 3  Israel along the way when Israel 4  came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 15:23

15:23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,

and presumption is like the evil of idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,

he has rejected you as 5  king.”

1 tn Or “kept.”

2 tn Heb “commanded.”

3 tn Heb “what Amalek did to Israel, how he placed against him.”

4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

5 tn Or “from [being].”