<t /><p class="poetry">They consume their alcohol,p> <p class="poetry">then engage in cult prostitution;p> <p class="poetry">they dearly love their shameful behavior.p>

<p class="bodytext">So Saul feared David, because the <sc>Lordsc> was with him but had departed from Saul.

<p class="bodytext">Samuel said, &#8220;Why are you asking me, now that the <sc>Lordsc> has turned away from you and has become your enemy?

The king of Israel went home to Samaria<n id="1" /> bitter and angry.p>

He was loyal to<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> and did not abandon him.<n id="2" /> He obeyed the commandments which the <sc>Lordsc> had given to<n id="3" /> Moses.

He followed in his father Asa&#8217;s footsteps and was careful to do what the <sc>Lordsc> approved.<n id="1" />

He did what the <sc>Lordsc> approved<n id="1" /> and followed in his ancestor David&#8217;s footsteps;<n id="2" /> he did not deviate to the right or the left.p>

<p class="poetry">Everyone rejects God;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they are all morally corrupt.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">None of them does what is right,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">not even one!p>

When the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> saw that<n id="2" /> he had turned aside to look, God called to him from within the bush and said, &#8220;Moses, Moses!&#8221;<n id="3" /> And Moses<n id="4" /> said, &#8220;Here I am.&#8221;

When<n id="1" /> the cloud departed from above the tent, Miriam became<n id="2" /> leprous<n id="3" /> as snow. Then Aaron looked at<n id="4" /> Miriam, and she was leprous!p>

She said, &#8220;The Philistines are here,<n id="1" /> Samson!&#8221; He woke up<n id="2" /> and thought,<n id="3" /> &#8220;I will do as I did before<n id="4" /> and shake myself free.&#8221; But he did not realize that the <sc>Lordsc> had left him.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Samuel said, &#8220;Bring me King Agag of the Amalekites.&#8221; So Agag came to him trembling,<n id="1" /> thinking to himself,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Surely death is bitter!&#8221;<n id="3" />

Yet he persisted in<n id="1" /> the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin; he did not turn from them.<n id="2" />p>

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. He continued in<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins.<n id="3" />

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. He did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin; he continued in those sins.<n id="3" />

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>; he did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, as his ancestors had done. He did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>; he did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.<n id="3" />p> <p class="bodytext">During his reign,

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>; he did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>; he did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.