1 Samuel 10:24

10:24 Then Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one whom the Lord has chosen? Indeed, there is no one like him among all the people!” All the people shouted out, “Long live the king!”

1 Samuel 13:13-14

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! 13:14 But now your kingdom will not continue! The Lord has sought out ³  for himself a man who is loyal to him ⁴  and the Lord has appointed ⁵  him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the Lord commanded you.”

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 ⁶  king.”

1 Samuel 15:2

15:2 Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed ⁷  Israel along the way when Israel ⁸  came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 7:15-16

7:15 So Samuel led ⁹  Israel all the days of his life. 7:16 Year after year he used to travel the circuit of Bethel, ¹⁰  Gilgal, and Mizpah; he used to judge Israel in all of these places.

[13:13]  ¹ tn Or “kept.”

[13:13]  ² tn Heb “commanded.”

[13:14]  ³ tn This verb form, as well as the one that follows (“appointed”), indicates completed action from the standpoint of the speaker. This does not necessarily mean that the Lord had already conducted his search and made his choice, however. The forms may be used for rhetorical effect to emphasize the certainty of the action. The divine search for a new king is as good as done, emphasizing that the days of Saul’s dynasty are numbered.

[13:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “according to his heart.” The idiomatic expression means to be like-minded with another, as its use in 1 Sam 14:7 indicates.

[13:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “commanded.”

[15:23]  ⁶ tn Or “from [being].”

[15:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “what Amalek did to Israel, how he placed against him.”

[15:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “judged” (also in v. 17).

[7:16]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.