1 Disse Samuel a Saul: Jeová enviou-me para te ungir rei sobre o seu povo, sobre Israel; agora escuta as palavras de Jeová.
2 Assim diz Jeová dos exércitos: Observei o que fez Amaleque a Israel, e de que modo se lhe opôs quando saía do Egito.
3 Vai e fere a Amaleque, e destrói totalmente a ele e a tudo o que tiver, não lhe perdoes, mas mata homem e mulher, o menino e crianças de mama, boi e ovelha, camelo e jumento.
4 Saul convocou o povo e enumerou-os em Telaim, duzentos mil homens de pé, e dez mil homens de Judá.
5 Chegou Saul à cidade de Amaleque, e dispôs emboscadas ao longo da torrente.
6 Disse Saul aos queneus: Ide, retirai-vos, descei dentre os amalequitas, não suceda que eu vos destrua juntamente com eles, porque vós usastes de misericórdia com todos os filhos de Israel, quando subiam do Egito.
7 Saul bateu aos amalequitas desde Havilá no caminho de Sur que está defronte do Egito.
8 Tomou vivo a Agague, rei dos amalequitas, e destruiu por completo a todo o povo ao fio da espada.
9 Mas Saul e o povo perdoaram a Agague e ao melhor das ovelhas e dos bois, dos animais engordados e dos cordeiros, e a todo o que era bom, não os quiseram destruir totalmente; porém a tudo o que houve de vil e desprezível, isso destruíram.
10 Veio a palavra de Jeová a Samuel, dizendo:
11 Arrependo-me de ter constituído rei a Saul; porque deixou de me seguir e não cumpriu as minhas ordens. Indignou-se Samuel, e clamou a Jeová toda a noite.
12 Levantou-se cedo Samuel para se encontrar com Saul pela manhã. Foi dito a Samuel que veio Saul ao Carmelo, levantou para si um monumento e, voltando, passou e desceu a Gilgal.
13 Chegando Samuel a Saul, disse-lhe Saul: Bendito sejas tu de Jeová; já cumpri a ordem de Jeová.
14 Samuel perguntou: Que quer dizer, pois, este balido de ovelhas que ressoa nos meus ouvidos, e o mugido de bois que ouço?
15 Respondeu Saul: Trouxeram-nos de Amaleque, pois o povo perdoou ao melhor das ovelhas e dos bois, para os sacrificar a Jeová teu Deus; o resto, porém, destruimo-lo totalmente.
16 Disse Samuel a Saul: Espera, e permite-me declarar-te o que Jeová me disse esta noite. Respondeu-lhe Saul: Fala.
17 Prosseguiu Samuel: Embora pequeno aos teus próprios olhos, não foste feito, porventura, o cabeça das tribos de Israel? Jeová ungiu-te rei sobre Israel,
18 enviou-te a esta jornada e disse: Vai, destrói totalmente a estes pecadores, os amalequitas, e peleja contra eles, até que sejam consumidos.
19 Por que não obedeceste à voz de Jeová, mas te lançaste ao despojo, e fizeste o mal à vista de Jeová?
20 Respondeu Saul a Samuel: Pelo contrário obedeci à voz de Jeová, e fui no caminho pelo qual Jeová me enviou, trouxe a Agague, rei de Amaleque, e destruí totalmente aos amalequitas.
21 Mas o povo tomou do despojo, ovelhas e bois, que são as primícias do anátema, para as sacrificar a Jeová teu Deus em Gilgal.
22 Disse Samuel: Tem, porventura, Jeová tanto prazer em holocaustos e sacrifícios, quanto tem em que se obedeça à sua voz? Eis que o obedecer é melhor do que o sacrifício, e o atender do que a gordura de carneiros.
23 Porque a rebelião é como o pecado da adivinhação, e a obstinação é como a idolatria e os terafins. Porquanto rejeitaste a palavra de Jeová, ele te rejeitou também a ti, para que não sejas rei.
24 Disse Saul a Samuel: Pequei, pois transgredi a ordem de Jeová, e as tuas palavras. Tive medo do povo, e obedeci à sua voz.
25 Agora perdoa-me o meu pecado, e volta comigo para que eu adore a Jeová.
26 Mas Samuel disse a Saul: Não voltarei contigo; porque rejeitaste a palavra de Jeová, e Jeová te rejeitou a ti, para que não sejas rei sobre Israel.
27 Ao voltar Samuel as costas para se ir, Saul pegou-lhe pela orla da capa, a qual se rasgou.
28 Disse-lhe Samuel: Hoje rasgou de ti Jeová o reino de Israel, e o entregou ao teu próximo, que é melhor do que tu.
29 Também o Triunfador de Israel não mentirá nem se arrependerá, porque não é um homem, para que se arrependa.
30 Saul disse: Pequei. Contudo honra-me agora diante dos anciãos do meu povo, e diante de Israel, e volta comigo, para que eu adore a Jeová teu Deus.
31 Voltando Samuel, seguiu a Saul, e Saul adorou a Jeová.
32 Disse Samuel: Trazei-me aqui a Agague, rei dos amalequitas. Agague veio a ele tremendo, e disse: Na verdade se passou a amargura da morte.
33 Disse, porém, Samuel: Como a tua espada tem desfilhado a mulheres, assim será desfilhada tua mãe entre as mulheres. Samuel despedaçou a Agague diante de Jeová em Gilgal.
34 Depois voltou para Ramá; e Saul foi para sua casa em Gibeá de Saul.
35 Samuel não tornou mais a ver Saul até o dia da sua morte, pois teve pena de Saul. Jeová arrependeu-se de ter constituído a Saul rei sobre Israel.
1 And Samuel said to Saul, The Lord sent me to put the holy oil on you and to make you king over his people, over Israel: so give ear now to the words of the Lord.
2 The Lord of armies says, I will give punishment to Amalek for what he did to Israel, fighting against him on the way when Israel came out of Egypt.
3 Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.
4 And Saul sent for the people and had them numbered in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah.
5 And Saul came to the town of Amalek, and took up his position in the valley secretly.
6 And Saul said to the Kenites, Go away, take yourselves out from among the Amalekites, or destruction will overtake you with them: for you were kind to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt. So the Kenites went away from among the Amalekites.
7 And Saul made an attack on the Amalekites from Havilah on the road to Shur, which is before Egypt.
8 He took Agag, king of the Amalekites, prisoner, and put all the people to the sword without mercy.
9 But Saul and the people did not put Agag to death, and they kept the best of the sheep and the oxen and the fat beasts and the lambs, and whatever was good, not desiring to put them to the curse: but everything which was bad and of no use they put to the curse.
10 Then the Lord said to Samuel,
11 It is no longer my pleasure for Saul to be king; for he is turned back from going in my ways, and has not done my orders. And Samuel was very sad, crying to the Lord in prayer all night.
12 And early in the morning he got up and went to Saul; and word was given to Samuel that Saul had come to Carmel and put up a pillar, and had gone from there down to Gilgal.
13 And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, May the blessing of the Lord be with you: I have done what was ordered by the Lord.
14 And Samuel said, What then is this sound of the crying of sheep and the noise of oxen which comes to my ears?
15 And Saul said, They have taken them from the Amalekites: for the people have kept the best of the sheep and of the oxen as an offering to the Lord your God; all the rest we have given up to destruction.
16 Then Samuel said to Saul, Say no more! Let me give you word of what the Lord has said to me this night. And he said to him, Say on.
17 And Samuel said, Though you may seem little to yourself, are you not head of the tribes of Israel? for the Lord with the holy oil made you king over Israel,
18 And the Lord sent you on a journey and said, Go and put to the curse those sinners, the Amalekites, fighting against them till every one is dead.
19 Why then did you not do the orders of the Lord, but by violently taking their goods did evil in the eyes of the Lord?
20 And Saul said, Truly, I have done the orders of the Lord and have gone the way the Lord sent me; I have taken Agag, the king of Amalek, and have given the Amalekites up to destruction.
21 But the people took some of their goods, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which were put to the curse, to make an offering of them to the Lord your God in Gilgal.
22 And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep.
23 For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.
24 And Saul said to Samuel, Great is my sin: for I have gone against the orders of the Lord and against your words: because, fearing the people, I did what they said.
25 So now, let my sin have forgiveness, and go back with me to give worship to the Lord.
26 And Samuel said to Saul, I will not go back with you: for you have put away from you the word of the Lord, and the Lord has put you from your place as king over Israel.
27 And when Samuel was turning round to go away, Saul took the skirt of his robe in his hand, and the cloth came away.
28 And Samuel said to him, The Lord has taken away the kingdom of Israel from you this day by force, and has given it to a neighbour of yours who is better than you.
29 And further, the Glory of Israel will not say what is false, and his purpose may not be changed: for he is not a man, whose purpose may be changed.
30 Then he said, Great is my sin: but still, give me honour now before the heads of my people and before Israel, and come back with me so that I may give worship to the Lord your God.
31 So Samuel went back after Saul, and Saul gave worship to the Lord.
32 Then Samuel said, Make Agag, the king of the Amalekites, come here to me. And Agag came to him shaking with fear. And Agag said, Truly the pain of death is past.
33 And Samuel said, As your sword has made women without children, so now your mother will be without children among women. And Agag was cut up by Samuel, bone from bone, before the Lord in Gilgal.
34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah, in the land of Saul.
35 And Samuel never saw Saul again till the day of his death; but Samuel was sorrowing for Saul: and it was no longer the Lord's pleasure for Saul to be king over Israel.