Discovery Box| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 12:11 |
| So the <sc>Lordsc> sent Jerub-Baal,<n id="1" /> Barak,<n id="2" /> Jephthah, and Samuel,<n id="3" /> and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely.p> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 12:12 |
| <p class="bodytext">“When you saw that King Nahash of the Ammonites was advancing against you, you said to me, ‘No! A king will rule over us’ – even though the <sc>Lordsc> your God is your king! |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 12:23 |
| As far as I am concerned, far be it from me to sin against the <sc>Lordsc> by ceasing to pray for you! I will instruct you in the way that is good and upright. |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 12:24 |
| However, fear the <sc>Lordsc> and serve him faithfully with all your heart. Just look at the great things he has done for you! |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 13:12 |
| I thought,<n id="1" /> ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the <sc>Lordsc>’s favor.’ So I felt obligated<n id="2" /> to offer the burnt offering.”p> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 14:10 |
| But if they say, ‘Come up against us,’ we will go up. For in that case the <sc>Lordsc> has given them into our hand – it will be a sign to us.”p> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 14:33 |
| <p class="bodytext">Now it was reported to Saul, “Look, the army is sinning against the <sc>Lordsc> by eating even the blood.” He said, “All of you have broken the covenant!<n id="1" /> Roll a large stone over here to me.” |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 14:39 |
| For as surely as the <sc>Lordsc>, the deliverer of Israel, lives, even if it turns out to be my own son Jonathan, he will certainly die!” But no one from the army said anything.<n id="1" />p> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 14:41 |
| <p class="bodytext">Then Saul said, “O <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel! If this sin has been committed by me or by my son Jonathan, then, O <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel, respond with Urim. But if this sin has been committed by your people Israel, respond with Thummim.”<n id="1" /> Then Jonathan and Saul were indicated by lot, while the army was exonerated.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 15:2 |
| Here is what the <sc>Lordsc> of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed<n id="1" /> Israel along the way when Israel<n id="2" /> came up from Egypt. |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 15:15 |
| Saul said, “They were brought<n id="1" /> from the Amalekites; the army spared the best of the flocks and cattle to sacrifice to the <sc>Lordsc> our God. But everything else we slaughtered.”p> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 15:16 |
| <p class="bodytext">Then Samuel said to Saul, “Wait a minute!<n id="1" /> Let me tell you what the <sc>Lordsc> said to me last night.” Saul<n id="2" /> said to him, “Tell me.” |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 15:17 |
| Samuel said, “Is it not true that when you were insignificant in your own eyes, you became head of the tribes of Israel? The <sc>Lordsc> chose<n id="1" /> you as king over Israel. |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 15:18 |
| The <sc>Lordsc> sent you on a campaign<n id="1" /> saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you<n id="2" /> have destroyed them.’ |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 15:23 |
| <p class="poetry">For rebellion is like the sin of divination,p> <p class="poetry">and presumption is like the evil of idolatry.p> <p class="poetry">Because you have rejected the word of the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">he has rejected you as<n id="1" /> king.”p> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 15:24 |
| <p class="bodytext">Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have disobeyed what the <sc>Lordsc> commanded<n id="1" /> and what you said as well.<n id="2" /> For I was afraid of the army, and I followed their wishes.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 15:28 |
| Samuel said to him, “The <sc>Lordsc> has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to one of your colleagues who is better than you! |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 15:30 |
| Saul<n id="1" /> again replied, “I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Go back with me so I may worship the <sc>Lordsc> your God.” |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 15:33 |
| Samuel said, “Just as your sword left women childless, so your mother will be the most bereaved among women!” Then Samuel hacked Agag to pieces there in Gilgal before the <sc>Lordsc>.p> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 16:4 |
| <p class="bodytext">Samuel did what the <sc>Lordsc> told him.<n id="1" /> When he arrived in Bethlehem,<n id="2" /> the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They<n id="3" /> said, “Do you come in peace?” |
